Configure help text to better convey what decorative images mean

I'm certainly open to changing this to be more descriptive. Do you have any proposals? The image is essentially hidden from screen readers. To my understanding, screen reader software will skip over an image that has empty alt text as if it does not exist.

I think "Check to skip adding alt text." will suffice. The technical angle of screen readers and image being 'decorative' will throw off a larger number of users. E.g. we have this issue on our forum and most forum members don't know screen readers, never heard of 'decorative' and don't even know what alt text means and so when they see "This image ..should be hidden'' they get alarmed like their image will not show to some people.

Or "Check to skip adding an alt text."

they get alarmed like their image will not show to some people.

They should get alarmed that their image won't show up to some people, because it's true. Blind users that navigate the web using a screen reader will not "see" the image if it doesn't have alternative text.

The alt text description field from core indicates the purpose of the alt text "Short description of the image used by screen readers and displayed when the image is not loaded. This is important for accessibility."

This module's entire purpose is to force users to stop and think about what it means to avoid entering alt text. The only valid reason for NOT having alt text on an image is if it's decorative.

I'm open to modifying the description to explain a bit more about what it means to mark an image as decorative.

But ... if we used your suggestion of "Check to skip adding alt text", then there's really no reason to use this module at all, and you might as well uninstall it. Just let your users keep the alt text field blank.

I get. Thanks.

It means myself have been abusing this module. I check it everywhere I add an image. I don't like the stress of entering alt texts and I have heard many say that to me.

It can certainly be challenging to come up with descriptive text for images!

I think that the descriptive text could be improved though to better help the users understand what a decorative image is, rather than just dumping them on the web accessibility page. I'll leave this open for that.