alt-text-writerlisted

## Process 1. **Classify the image: decorative or informative.** Decorative — conveys no information beyond what surrounding text already states, or is pure ornament (spacing, texture, repeated background): set `alt=""` and stop here. Informative — continue to step 2. 2. **Confirm you can actually see the image.** If you have no image data — broken link, filename only, asset not rendered — stop and ask the user for a description of the image. Do not guess at content you cannot see. 3. **Check for text baked into the image itself** (headline, caption, signage, label, badge). If present, it must appear in the alt text transcribed verbatim. 4. **Identify the subject and front-load it** — the alt text's first words name what the image is of, not the scene setup around it. 5. **Product shot?** Name the product line explicitly. A product photo without its product line in the alt text is incomplete. 6. **Write the alt text.** - 125 characters max. - Never use "image of" or "picture of" — start directly with the subject. - Include verbatim baked-in text (step 3) and product line (step 5) where they apply. Done when: every image is either `alt=""` (decorative) or has alt text meeting all of steps 3–6, or a description has been requested for anything unviewable.