22-alt-attributes.md

22. Define Images with Appropriate Text Alternatives

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• Always strive to provide descriptive and meaningful alt attributes. 👍

• A good way to test whether your alt text is descriptive enough is to prevent the image from loading. Does the remaining alt text make sense?

• If the image doesn't provide any additional information and is purely decorative, you can provide any empty alt attribute. 👍

<img src="mypic.jpg" alt="">
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* Empty alt text actually removes images from the accessibility tree so they'll be skipped by the screen reader.