The issue here is that despite screen readers, text is simply not the same as images. Spamming a page with redundant visual imagery that's easy to take in at a

The issue here is that despite screen readers, text is simply not the same as images. Spamming a page with redundant visual imagery that's easy to take in at a glance is fine. But its terrible to screen read, because reading is much more expensive than glancing. For the alt text, it's important to only give valuable non-redundant information.