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The images are labeled for accessibility reasons; they're used as fallback descriptions for figures and images. The slides are wrapped with `<figure>` tags, and the captions with `<figcaption>` tags. They're so that screen readers can interpret the figure, which is why the text is often redundant.



...But images have the alt attribute when you want to help screen readers without cluttering things up for people who read the image.


I guess Medium should offer a visually-hidden style then.




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