Yes, thanks for reporting it — we should add an empty alt tag here, because the badge image is decorative and adding the name of the badge again would be redundant because it’s already available as text.
Will be done here:
main ← a11y-custom-badge-alt
merged 04:03PM - 05 May 26 UTC
When adding an image to custom badges like the one below, we don't add an alt ta… g to the image. We should add an empty alt tag, indicating that the image is only decorative. This is reasonable because the badge name is in accessible text next to the image, so the description of the image isn't necessary.
<img width="400" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7920ddea-4c89-481c-8064-fa9d928e7991" />
This icon-or-image helper is used elsewhere, but they're all cases where this behavior is desired.
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