In short, yes. Or rather, ALT tags play an important part in search engine indexing and can be tricky to configure around browsers and screen readers, so if you fail to utilise them, your web page could fail to be spotted. Screen readers: Out of your worldwide audience, almost 285 million of them are visually impaired or blind, so to cater for this demographic, pictures on your website should include ALT tags, to provide a pop-up description of the image. If you don’t know what you’re doing, this can have dire consequences on the user interface. A recent study conducted…
