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Images Missing Alt Text

MUST

MUST: All images must have alt attribute - descriptive for informative images, empty alt="" for decorative images. Screen readers announce images; missing alt creates confusion.

All images must have descriptive alt text for screen reader users

Bad

Good

Why it matters

Rams lists this as a Critical accessibility check (WCAG 1.1.1) in its review table; the upstream skill is a checklist, so that terse row is the whole rule. Why it matters: images without alt text are invisible to screen reader users. Decorative images should carry alt="" so they are skipped, while meaningful images need text conveying their content and purpose.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.