Right now there is a bit left to be desired when it comes to lemmys accessibility features, but it’s a good idea to be mindful of the fact the fediverse and its platforms tends to have pretty universal accessibility features that will likely come to lemmy sooner rather than later
I can’t really think of a case where a post’s image isn’t relevant to the associated discussion. Even if it’s just a nonsense post with an unrelated image, knowing what the irrelevant image is about would help make sense of the discussion.
Right. If it’s a post it probably won’t be relevant.
Unless it’s something like
In that case I would add a blank alt text (so accessibility tools won’t read the file name) for the cake and party hat.
But I would add alt text describing the photo of Suzanne “Suzanne answers the phone while accepting paperwork from a coworker”