Léonie Watson

Text descriptions and emotion rich images

https://tink.uk/text-descriptions-emotion-rich-images/

A good alt text can conjure up wonderfully stimulating mental images. A friendly smile is the same in print, photo or wax crayon. Whether you listen to an image or see it, the emotional response is the key factor, so why should we recommend that these emotion rich images should be given a null alt text and hidden from screen reader users?

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