WCAG 1.1.1 · Level A
Image Alt
- What is broken
- Images on the page carry no text description, so anything they communicate is lost to anyone who cannot see them.
- Who it affects
- Blind and low-vision visitors using a screen reader get nothing where the image should be — often just a file name read aloud.
- How to fix it
- Add a descriptive alt attribute to every meaningful image. Use alt="" for purely decorative ones so assistive tech skips them instead of announcing the filename.
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