Image alt attribute

  • Was running a page audit and it reported there were images with empty alt attributes. All the images did have alt content but they were not being seen on a page audit.

    Looks like the issue is the images have a different class for loaded and non-loaded. The non-loaded images get their alt attribute set to data-alt. When source code is viewed (not loaded) they all appear as data-alt but when ‘inspected’ (loaded) show as ‘alt’.

    As far as aware data-alt attribute is not recognised/supported by search bots and could be detrimental to search rankings if all the images appear to have empty alt attributes.

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  • Plugin Author Processby

    (@processby)

    The alt attribute, like the src attribute, is added using the JavaScript. Google understands JavaScript, otherwise it would not advise using lazy loading images.

    @processby, can’t you add data: image in the src attr temporary instead?

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