Decorative Images
Difficulty: Advanced
Category:
- Content
- Presentation
In some cases images are used to convey a mood, feeling, or non-literal content – something to make the page more friendly, personable, or visually pleasing. It is often difficult to convey meaningful alternative text for such images in a way that is useful for someone that cannot see the image. Of course if the image conveys important content or has a function, it must have alternative text. But for many of these more decorative images, it is often best to give them empty or null alternative text (alt=””) rather than try to convey the mood, feeling, or visual subtleties in alternative text.
