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Re:Problems with the CSS background-image property by jakelazaroff on Sunday July 28, 2019 @01:01PM (#20548543)
Given that all the images in the article are purely decorative, why you using picture and img tags rather than CSS background-image? You're also supplying alt attributes, so someone with a screen reader will hear a random "Bad boy doggo" in the middle of an article about HTML and CSS.
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Re:Problems with the CSS background-image property by khalwat on Sunday July 28, 2019 @01:16PM (#20548625)
Agreed; if the images are purely decorative (some are, some are not) then it should have an empty `alt=""` to have screen readers skip them.

But I would still want to use an actual picture element with srcset & source attributes/tags for the reasons mentioned in the article.

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