Image alt attribute best practices

Question

What exactly is the intended use of the alt attribute on tags?

Should it describe the image, or should it provide meaningful re

Answer 1

The HTML 5 spec has a huge section on this.

Basically, the alt attribute should be what would be there as text if you hadn't used an image at all. If your image is purely decorative, you can use alt="". A description goes in the title attribute.