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Originally Posted by kieransimkin
My question is why - under what circumstances is the alt attribute on an image less accessible than a piece of plain text?
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When it is full of keywords (a.ka. keyword stuffing).
The alt attribute is there to add a description of the image for:
-those who use assistive technology to read web pages
-those who choose to have images turned off to save bandwidth and/or ignore ads.