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by tonetegeatinst 667 days ago
Probably accessibility reasons. Even ancient browsers or obscure browsers support text. Their is a non zero chance a browser wouldn't support the image format, or the image might not scale across different screen sizes. Also iirc their was some vulnerability that used a image format so that's also a issue to think about.

Finally, text makes web scraping/parsing much easier, and even ignoring that text is smaller than any image format.

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Couldn't alt-text be used to address accessibility?

Web scrapping shouldn't be a requirement of personal banking websites. Am I missing something here?