An empty alt="" attribute is sufficient to make screenreader software skip those purely decorative images. role="presentation" is not needed.
See https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decorative/
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| Project | Branch | Lines +/- | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wikimedia/developer-portal | main | +14 -17 | Accessibility: Remove alt text from decorative images |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Aklapper | T265018 Update redirect target of dev.wikimedia.org to Developer Portal | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T265019 Update several on-wiki link targets for "Developers" links (sidebars, footer, pages) | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T286568 Communicate launch | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T302809 Add dev portal to list of microsites on doc.wikimedia.org | |||
| Open | None | T299923 Update Zulip's welcomebot message and GSoC organization contact to point to dev portal | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T287030 Update or remove meta:Wikimedia_Resource_Center/For_developers | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T265017 Once developer.wikimedia.org is up, make https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub redirect to it | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T261510 Launch MVP of Developer Portal on https://developer.wikimedia.org/ | |||
| Resolved | TBurmeister | T287500 Accessibility evaluation | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T306497 Remove alt parameter values for decorative images |
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Change 784641 had a related patch set uploaded (by Aklapper; author: Aklapper):
[wikimedia/developer-portal@main] Accessibility: Remove alt text from decorative images
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Change 784641 merged by jenkins-bot:
[wikimedia/developer-portal@main] Accessibility: Remove alt text from decorative images