@arush I have an alt txt question. Have a student who is working on trying to start a club on campus for blind students. She is doing our photo challenge and put an image description in each photo caption. Would it be best to leave alt="" blank to reduce screen reader repetition?

@jgmac1106 Answer from an actual screen reader user. As long as you put the description in there somewhere, who cares? I mean the person shouldn't waste their time with a blank attribute. Yeah it probably won't validate, but having it in the caption should still work.

@jgmac1106I hope you don’t mind me jumping in as another blind screen reader user. I’d say that ideally you should consider putting more of a description in the alt tag than the caption provides. Sometimes, context or other interesting details are lost with captions. Someone might have a caption like “John Smith and his dog”, but the picture is John and his dog playing in the snow, at the beach, hiking, asleep on a sofa, etc. Captions are generally supplementary/clarifying information, but a lot is still be lost to the screen reader user if captions are all we get. HTH!

@hope I was more worried about redundancy. The title attribute was the same as the alt text.

@jgmac1106 thank you. I mixed up conversations. You both were helping me and my student.

She is new to web design and trying to start an online campus support group.

@hope that's perfect answer. Interestingly she is doing the photo challenge so browser readers can see them.

@jgmac1106 I am learning so much teaching.

@jgmac1106 Yes. If the image caption already has the description, then you'd want to leave the alt attribute blank, but it still needs to be there. alt="".

@jgmac1106 OK, then I wouldn't worry about the alt text. Like I said if the description is in there somewhere, it should still work fine.

@jgmac1106 Since she's putting the descriptions in the title, the only benefit of having alt text in that case is SEO.