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Alt Text: Not Always Needed | CSS-Tricks (css-tricks.com)

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[–] orockwell -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is incorrect and against the w3c spec. Use role="presentation" or aria-hidden="true" if it's not needed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The W3C explicitly say that decorative images can have empty alt tags: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/ and https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decorative/