: Duplicate alt tags in a big gallery Our website mainly consists of galleries, while usually smaller, they sometimes reach over 100 images per post. As each image is bound to the same topic,

@Kaufman445

If you really suffer from hundreds of images per post title and need to add alt attributes, you are left with a couple of scenarios on how to deal with it:


Add alt attributes to first page images and no alt-tags for all subsequent pages for each topic (if you have hundreds of images on a single page, you got other problems to deal with anyway)
Use logic to break alt attributes and have some sort of rewrite rules to change alt attributes based on topic. For example, you could add "Uploaded by username", have League of Legends abbreviate sometimes to "LoL" and have only every second or third alt attributes get populated.
Google doesn't even use alt attributes on their image search, but instead use data attributes and have javascript overlay the image with the data associated with it.


On the other hand, what good are 247 alt attributes which are more or less the same? These are supposed to help users, and if that's not the case, just leave them out entirely.

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@Lee4591628

You could just add - Image XX to the end of the Alt tag for each image after the first. So you'd basically end up with:

League of Legends Sona Cosplay By Eki
League of Legends Sona Cosplay By Eki - Image 2
League of Legends Sona Cosplay By Eki - Image 3


This way at least give you (slightly) different Alt tags, and it's actually understandable to users who see it (e.g. blind browsers with a screen-reader).

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