Images have no text alternative
One or more images on this page have no alt attribute.
Why it matters
One or more images on this page have no alt attribute. Screen readers fall back to announcing the file name, or skip the image entirely, so their users miss whatever the image conveys. Give each meaningful image a concise alt describing its content; mark purely decorative images with alt="" so they are correctly skipped. (The count and a sample are in this finding's evidence.)
How ShipReady detects it
Per-page accessibility signals read straight from the fetched HTML — no extra requests. Page-scoped because images, forms and controls differ between routes (a marketing homepage vs a signup form), and the route carrying the form is the one worth seeing.
Detection is deterministic. ShipReady reports this only when it observes the condition directly, and prefers to miss a real problem over inventing one. Rule version 1.0.0.
How to fix it
This is the prompt ShipReady puts in your report — written to be pasted straight into Cursor, Claude Code, or whichever assistant built the app.
One or more <img> elements on this page have no alt attribute, so screen readers announce the file name or skip the image, and its meaning is lost. For each image, decide whether it conveys information: if it does, add a concise alt describing what it shows (not "image of…"); if it is purely decorative, add an empty alt="" so assistive technology skips it. Search your components/templates for <img …> without alt and fix each one. If images come from a CMS or user uploads, require alt text at the point of upload.
Frequently asked questions
- What does "Images have no text alternative" mean?
- One or more images on this page have no alt attribute.
- How serious is it?
- ShipReady rates this medium. Fix soon. Meaningfully weakens a defence or degrades how the site works.
- How do I fix it?
- Paste the fix prompt on this page into Cursor, Claude Code or your AI editor. It is the same prompt ShipReady puts in your report.
- Can I check my own site?
- Yes — ShipReady scans up to ten pages of any public site for free and reports this alongside every other check. The free report lists every issue it finds and shows full evidence and a fix prompt for the critical and high-severity ones; medium and low findings are counted and unlock on Pro.
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