Re: CMS required alt text for images

Note that this is the sort of question that Authoring Tool Accessibility  
Guidelines was designed to help answer - and provide enough material to  
review and compare things like CMS. (Admittedly an ATAG review of a tool  
is a pretty large job).

https://w3.org/TR/ATAG

cheers

On Sat, 02 Mar 2019 21:24:31 +0100, Alastair Campbell  
<acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:

>
>> In this instance what is the best practice for handling decorative  
>> images where the alt text would normally be set as null?
>
>
> Ideally, I would try and avoid the scenario where a content-author would  
> be putting in a decorative image. Most instances where it should be  
> >null are probably best tackled with a custom content type or as part of  
> the templates.
>
>
> If there are legitimate times when a null alt is appropriate, then I’d  
> suggest adding a tick box to that effect, e.g. [_] No description  
> required.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> -Alastair



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