Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge] Remove useless alt in docum…

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Temat: Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge] Remove useless alt in documentation
intrigeri:
> Hi,
>
> xin:
>> Hello, I made a branch to remove some useless alt for images in
>> documentation.
>
>> Repo: https://git-tails.immerda.ch/xin/tails/
>> Branch: remove-useless-alt
>> Last Commit: 9818d4911fac7460941c7f4f95a1429d813f94f2
>
> I'm a bit confused by this request. Either the pictures convey some
> useful information, and then they need an alt text, or they don't, and
> then perhaps they should not be present at all, no? (But I guess I'm
> grossly over-simplifying :) I'll leave it to sajolida to handle this.
>

alt-tags are important for blind people, even when they just describe
what the image says.

I could not review the branch from the website because the repo is
private or something, but I think accessibility in HTML always requires
alt tags, even if they are simply 'logo'.