A11Y 101: How to alt tags
Alt tags have been along since the dawn of HTML and creating websites. However, for some people (including me), they were never a top priority. Let's change that behavior! And I'll tell you why. What about visually impaired people who cannot see what...
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Savvas Stephanides
Great article, Chris! Glad you brought the importance of alt text to the spotlight.
As a rule of thumb when I write articles, I tend to write as if the image was never there. For example for complex images or graphs, I write exactly what the image depicts in bullet points and use the image as a visual aid for what I have written with a blank alt. This makes the image essentially just decorative.
Thank you for writing this! 💙