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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: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jun 14, 2019 3:24PM

Oh duh, I should've remembered that this info was part of the WebAIM
million report (one of the coolest things in accessibility this year).


On 6/14/19, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone has actually done analysis on the ratio of
>> informational to decorative/formatting images on websites in general.
>
> From the WebAIM Million Report (https://webaim.org/projects/million/):
>
> - 18.5% of all images were linked images (meaning no other text within
> the link) with missing alt or alt="" (and no other accessible name).
>
> - An additional 15.1% of images had no alt attribute value or other
> accessible name, for a total of 33.6% of images with obvious
> alternative text failures.
>
> - 13.6% of images had alt="" in cases where this *might* be valid.
> It's difficult to know if these were actually decorative, but only
> 1.2% of images had alt="" and also a filename that would indicate it
> is probably a spacer image.
>
> - 53% of images had been given alternative text (non-empty alt
> attribute). 20% of these had likely problematic alt text such as
> "image", alt that duplicated adjacent text, very long alt values, etc.
>
> Jon and John, I believe I addressed this previously - I meant to
> suggest that the logic should check if the image is the ONLY thing
> inside a link. But even if there were text within the link,
> automatically giving such images alt="" is not always appropriate.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jared
> > > > >


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