[robin_reala]

An image on its own: sure, our tech is getting pretty good at recognising the contents. An image in context? Almost impossible to tell whether it’s meant to be decorative, inspirational, factual, or to be OCRed for text without some sort of hint.

Or what about a chart, or an assembly or measurement diagram? Can current image recognition reliably reproduce that information?

At the end of the day, the extra work by developers is part of what it means to be a developer. If you’re not doing that work then is the end product really meeting your users’ needs?

[charcircuit]

A screen reader could be made to describe those things. Even if it failed I don't see how it could be worse than it just saying that there is an image there.