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Re: How to dynamically fix thousands of images missing alt attributes using regular expression find and replace

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jun 14, 2019 1:11PM

> That's not quite true - images in links can have alt="" as long as the link also contains text.

Indeed. Or they could instead have an ARIA label. Or a title attribute
value. Or be hidden altogether and have tabindex="-1". Or...

This just underscores the potential difficulties of using such find
and replace (or overlay) techniques that don't consider the specific
instances of (in)accessibility.

Jared