Image Alt Text for Blog Posts

MakkPress Technologies
Jul 23
1 min read

Accessibility and SEO

Alt text serves screen readers first and search engines second. Missing alt text is a real accessibility failure.

The image above has no alt text at all, which an image audit should flag as missing.

This one uses a filename as alt text, which is almost as bad as leaving it blank.

This third image is marked decorative, so an empty alt is correct and must not be flagged.

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