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Q&A The mystery of the alt text warning in a post with no images

Amusingly, a post about alt text triggered the missing alt text warning: I can see why the warning was triggered - the post contains the markdown for an image, which has the standard placeholder...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2023-01-03T10:01:43Z (over 1 year ago)
The mystery of the alt text warning in a post with no images
Amusingly, [a post about alt text](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287653) triggered the missing alt text warning:

![A post containing a code block that triggered the alt text warning](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/dlt3j2wt9pah9kssw6d0k3rp08pm)

I can see why the warning was triggered - the post contains the markdown for an image, which has the standard placeholder text instead of a meaningful description. I'm very much in favour of the alt text warning in general, but in this case the markdown was inside a code block so the warning is not needed (there is no image in that post).

I'm raising this for completeness as it's technically a bug, but I don't see it as urgent to fix - I wouldn't be surprised if this is the only time it ever happens...