Annoying website features I face as a blind person
This is all good top-level stuff, but one thing I&#x27;d quibble with in this article is something that they don&#x27;t say, except in the linked article about writing alt text - the vast majority of images are decorative, and those images should have an empty alt attribute. I see far too many images with pointless alt text because &quot;you need to add alt text to all images&quot;. The easy way to think about this is to read the page as if the image alt text was part of the body copy. So if it goes like this:<p>&quot;There are a number of different issues at play in universities at the moment. Stock photograph of students talking at a table. We spoke to the dean of the faculty of social sciences...&quot;<p>You can see that this is pointless alt text. So the default should be no alt text unless there&#x27;s some content in the image that is important for the context of the article.<p>I&#x27;m even dubious that photos that show something described in the article should have alt text, and I&#x27;d be interested to hear from blind and partially-sighted users what they think. For example:<p>&quot;The dam burst on Saturday, inundating the local town. Photo of burst dam with rubble and uprooted trees at the side. The mayor said that they were lucky nobody was injured...&quot;<p>Presumably if what the dam looked like after it burst was described in the article, that image shouldn&#x27;t have alt text?