If you look at most images in web pages, I'd argue that the vast majority are decorative or impossible to explain in a meaningful way. I've been building sites

If you look at most images in web pages, I'd argue that the vast majority are decorative or impossible to explain in a meaningful way. I've been building sites since the late 90s and I think this is probably a throwback to the times when we used to generate images with text in them, which doesn't really happen any more. Although there are probably cases where it's still relevant - I just can't think of any off the top of my head. Edit: Perhaps a news story where the victim of a crime is in the foreground of an old photo and the person who committed the crime is in the background. But then that would be referenced in the text of the story, and the alt text would mention that reference.