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Re:Front-End Checklist by drusepth on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @08:31PM (#15504512)
What is the value of having an alt attribute if its value is blank? Just to tell someone poking at the source code that, "yeah, I know I'm supposed to have this, and it's intentionally left blank"?
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Re:Front-End Checklist by fold_left on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:20AM (#15505825)
No, the reason given was

> give it an empty alt attribute to indicate to the screen reader that it shouldn’t try to read out the file name or something

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