https://xkcd.com/2827

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Sequoia Brussels sprouts are delicious but it’s pretty hard to finish one.

  • JohnnyEnzyme
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    1 year ago

    Alternative (Alt) Text is meant to convey the “why” of the image as it relates to the content of a document or webpage. It is read aloud to users by screen reader software, and it is indexed by search engines. [Harvard link]

    Oh, I see what you mean! So strictly speaking, alt-text should be used for the intended purpose, i.e. in order to help certain users and searches, etc.

    Fortunately or unfortunately, I suspect most webcomics makers, and no doubt others, are going to keep using it the way they are. I’m not sure there’s a real issue in this case, but maybe in others…

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      From what I have seen, alt text describes the image for blind people or for the case that the image isn’t loading