In terms of WCAG 2.0 accessibility, if I write alt or alt="" in the html, are empty alt tags equally valid?
like this:
<img src="some-image.jpg" alt=""> <img src="some-image.jpg" alt>
Are they all valid for illustrating decorative images?
Inspecting the image using alt="" in the browser's dev tools will show alt, so will just writing alt in the html work?
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They are the same: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44764507/18717610 Screen readers will not read images with empty alt attributes.
Both should be treated equally.
According to HTML standard: