To add alt text to an image in Microsoft Word,
there are two ways you can do it.
If you're using a mouse, click on the image to select it,
right click and select edit alt text.
If you don't use a mouse,
make sure that your picture is selected,
hit the alt key.
That will take you into the menus,
and go to picture format, which is JP.
Then select alt text, which is AT.
In this case,
automatically generated alt text has been provided.
A person and person posing for a picture,
description automatically generated with low confidence.
We're going to change that as it's not very descriptive.
So we've selected all of it. I'll delete that,
and I've already pre-prepared some alt text which I'm going to paste in.
It says: Scarborough's town crier and his wife
wearing their official bright red gold trimmed coats and hats.
The town crier is ringing a large hand bell.
Now I can close the alt text.
One other thing to check is that
the image is inline.
The inline with text option
should be chosen, not any of the other wrapping options.
That way a screen reader will recognise the image and read the alt text.