aardrian, 1 month ago

@ian What? That is, at its simplest, wrong.

alt="" is not the worst thing you can do.

Heck, it’s a Sufficient Technique for WCAG:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Techniques/html/H67

Does this speaker have slides online?

ian, 1 month ago

@aardrian I'll link them to this. Either I misunderstood and got this backwards or...not...

aardrian, 1 month ago

@ian Yeah, transcribing during a conf can be tricky, so I get it if that’s all it is.

ian, 1 month ago

@aardrian Chatted back and forth a little further...

aardrian, 1 month ago

@ian Ah, his argument is from the dev side, not the user side.

While I understand libraries can freak out, removing the alt attribute completely (versus <img alt> or <img alt="">) will cause most screen readers to announce the file name.

Oh, and is a WCAG SC 1.1.1 auto-fail.

But if he meant <img alt> versus <img alt="">, then no worries as they are exposed the same.

Thanks for brokering that!