The Alt-Text Existential Crisis: A Live Therapy Session

Alt text is the industry’s favourite ‘easy win’… until you’re 30 minutes deep, questioning your life choices and trying to work out if the dog is essential to the content (*note – the dog is ALWAYS essential to the content!). Welcome to a group therapy session for anyone who has spiralled over the alt attribute. Together we’ll unpack the tension between description and intent, push past the “just alt=”” everything” and make sense of why this ‘simple’ task feels so hard, with practical ways to approach it without the existential crisis.

Charlii Parker

Charlii Parker is a Senior UX and accessibility practitioner working at the intersection of accessibility, research, and reality. She helps teams design products that don’t quietly exclude people.

With over a decade of experience running inclusive research with people with disability and other marginalised groups, Charlii helps businesses turn ‘we should’ into ‘we did.’ Known for being practical, candid, and gently intolerant of performative accessibility, she focuses on what actually works in the real world, while occasionally overthinking alt text more than is probably healthy.