Editing Encyclopedia:Manual of Style (section)

===Avoid using images to display text<span id="Avoid entering textual information as images"></span>===
{{See also|Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Text}}
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Textual information should always be transmitted <em>as text</em>, rather than in an image. True text can be easily searched, selected, copied, and manipulated by readers; its presentation can also be adjusted using [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]]. These tasks are generally difficult or impossible with text presented in an image: images are slower to download, and generally cannot be searched or processed by [[screen reader]]s used by the visually impaired. Any important textual information in an image should be provided somewhere as text, generally either in the image's caption or alt text.

For entering textual information as audio, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia]].