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by charcircuit 1590 days ago
>A screen reader can’t describe a JPEG or animated GIF.

Sure it can. There's a whole field of computer science for doing just that, computer vision.

>You can’t automatically translate text in images

You can use OCR to read text from images.

>Images and their toolchains like imagemagick introduce attack vectors.

This isn't fair. Text based toolchains can be vulnerable too. There have been millions of vulnerabilities with string handling

>They take up more disk space.

Buy a bigger hard drive / cloud storage.

>You can’t change the font of text in images.

Pick a readable font in the first place.

>Text in images is not greppable.

Again your could use OCR to make thi spossible.

>Do you need to change some text in that documentation image? Hope you have the vector-based original!

Check in the project file to source control or just draw over the current one.