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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: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Jun 18, 2019 5:43AM

Arrow images shouldn't always have null alt attributes. Sometimes
knowing that there's an arrow image is the only way of working out
that a bunch of elements is visually styled to look like a list. I
know this would still constitute a WCAG fail, but something is better
than nothing, right?

On 14/06/2019, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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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