I'm adding alt
attributes to all my images to improve SEO/screen reader performance.
Per best practice, images that are purely aesthetic should have an empty alt attribute alt=""
so screen readers skip over them. I'm in WordPress and noticed it does add alt
to these descriptionless aesthetic images, but not alt=""
.
Does alt
get read the same as alt=""
by screen readers and search engine crawlers, or should I go in and programatically force an alt=""
?