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Image alt text Nanonymous No.7245 [D][U][F][S][L][A][C] >>7250
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What's with web shotters still adding alt text to images? Why would anyone need this when every website now is basically a program that only runs in the latest patch of their Big Four browser and breaks if you press any sequence of buttons not thought of by the newgrad developer? You can't actually browse any modern bullshit without the most bloated possible browser, let alone one without images.
example:
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-10370 size-large" title="This General Tso's Tofu recipe is from Chloe Coscarelli's new cookbook Chloe Flavor. It's crispy, spicy, sticky-sweet and full of umami flavor. ">
Yeah I know the authors of articles aren't necessarily the ones doing this, but someone somewhere in every "stack" is choosing to still support alt, and every single blog, "journal", and news website is still using this shit.

Nanonymous No.7247 [D] >>7251
It's for blind people dumbass.

Nanonymous No.7249 [D] >>7251
yeah i was forgetting that. but that use case probably doesnt work on 99% f websites either.

Nanonymous No.7250 [D]
>>7245
It's for screen readers, adding the alt attribute is good design IMO, it's also useful if the image request fails(or you block it).

Nanonymous No.7251 [D] >>7252
>>7247
This. What a waste of a thread.
>>7249
>yeah i was forgetting that.
>forgets the primary purpose of the tag, then comes on nano to bitch about why people use it
I'm not going to tell you to kill yourself. But I am going to tell you to get a vasectomy. Please, for the sake of our species. We don't need more retards.

Nanonymous No.7252 [D][U][F] >>7253
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>>7251
okay dumb fuck, now explain how OP's pic is useful for a blind person
also try comprehending what the thread is about. the purpose of alt doesnt change anything. it could be for TTS, it could be for text mode browsers. neither of these change anything

Nanonymous No.7253 [D][U][F]
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>>7252
>okay dumb fuck, now explain how OP's pic is useful for a blind person
are you fucking braindead?
OP pic is offtopic, cause it shows misusing and exploiting(for SEO retardation probably) the alt attribute feature, if used well the alt text should say that there is a image and it should describe the image, so that a screen reader can pick that up after parsing the page and read it(with text-to-voice software) to the blind person. You might argue that text cannot substitute an image, but it's better than nothing.

the absolute state of nanochan

Nanonymous No.7375 [D][U][F] >>7378
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>if used well the alt text should say that there is a image and it should describe the image
noone here is arguing against alt text you dense faggot

Nanonymous No.7378 [D] >>7619
>>7375
read the OPtext again genius
implying you aren't the OP furiously backpedalling

Nanonymous No.7619 [D][U][F]
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>>7378
you're the only fucking retard here. you insist on claiming that I'm arguing against alt text when the very topic of the thread is making fun of people who use alt text on their bloated piece of shit websites which wouldn't work on a screen reader, non-js browser, or any of the shit alt-text is designed for, in the first place