Image without alt text
Why it matters
Alt text is an accessibility requirement and the only way image search understands the file.
What to do about it
Describe the image in plain language, or use an empty alt if it is decorative.
The engine generates this fix itself using the write_alt_text strategy. It arrives in your queue as a complete artefact, because an incomplete fix never reaches the queue, and once you approve it the change is pushed and the page re-fetched to confirm it is live.
How it is weighted
These are the values the scoring actually uses, not a description of them. Priority is derived from all three rather than chosen, which is why a high-impact, low-effort finding surfaces above a severe one that would take a quarter to fix.
- Severity
- medium
- Impact
- 30% of the weight this category can carry
- Effort
- 10%, where 100% is a project rather than a change
- Confidence
- 80% that a hit is a real problem rather than a pattern we misread
- Area
- Content and on-page
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