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Re: Front-End Checklist

#7
> Alternative text: High All have an alternative text which describe the image visually.

Please don't do that. Don't put an alt on ALL images. Screen readers will read all of them. Skin and flavour images don't deserve to be read outloud. Nobody wants to hear "bottom left corner of logo" or "rounded corner".

Re: Front-End Checklist

#9

Are sitemaps still a thing that really matters?

If you're coding it from scratch, don't bother.

If you're using wordpress or another pre-baked system, then it's worth having a sitemap plugin (example: Yoast SEO) or the built-in sitemap (like for Shopify).

Submit it to Google Search Console, Bing, and you're done (essentially).

Re: Front-End Checklist

#10

> Alternative text: High All have an alternative text which describe the image visually. Please don't do that. Don't put an alt on ALL images. Screen readers will read all of them. Skin and flavour images don't deserve to be read outloud. Nobody wants to hear "bottom left corner of logo" or "rounded corner".

Typically you’d use background images for something like that. Regardless, if you do have an image that doesn’t add anything to the information on the page give it an empty alt attribute to indicate to the screen reader that it shouldn’t try to read out the file name or something.
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