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lrnassar
  Tue Mar 17 08:46:31 2026 -0700
Adding alt text to images across static documentation pages, CGI headers, markdown docs, and Pandoc templates. Content images receive AI-generated descriptive alt text; decorative images (icons, spacers, toggles) receive alt="" per WCAG best practice. Also adds Image Descriptions section to the accessibility page, and fixes Pandoc Lua writers to output alt attributes. 67 files, covering help docs, news archive, ENCODE pages, portal pages, and session examples. refs #37254

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/trackSearch.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/trackSearch.html
index 7be7eda6a3b..65377de9436 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/trackSearch.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/trackSearch.html
@@ -47,37 +47,37 @@
 information available about the terms.</p> 
 
 <h2>Results</h2> 
 <p> 
 After clicking the &quot;Search&quot; button, the first 100 tracks that meet the search criteria are
 displayed.</p> 
 <p> 
 <strong>Check-box/Visibility: </strong> Tracks that are currently being displayed in the browser 
 will have their check-box selected. To turn tracks on or off, select or deselect the associated 
 check-box. To turn all tracks listed on the current results page on or off, click the &quot;+&quot; 
 or &quot;-&quot; button at the top of the column. By default, selecting the check-box of a track 
 turns the track to pack as long as pack is a valid view mode of the track. If it isn't, the track 
 is set to full or show. Once the check-box of a track is selected, the visibility can be changed 
 using the drop-down menu in the visibility column.</p> 
 <p> 
-The <img class="gbsInlineImg" src="../../images/folderWrench.png" width="15" height="15"> icon 
+The <img alt="" class="gbsInlineImg" src="../../images/folderWrench.png" width="15" height="15"> icon 
 designates &quot;container tracks&quot; that can be configured by clicking the icon. Container 
 tracks don't have data themselves; instead, they contain other tracks that do have data. Examples of
 container tracks are composite tracks, which have a light orange background in the search results, 
 and super-tracks, which have a tan background; tracks that contain data have a yellow background. 
 While tracks within a container track may show up in the search results and can be configured from 
-the search results page, this isn't always the case. Clicking <img class="gbsInlineImg" 
+the search results page, this isn't always the case. Clicking <img alt="" class="gbsInlineImg" 
 src="../../images/folderWrench.png" width="15" height="15"> opens the 
 container track configuration page, allowing the all the tracks within the container track to be 
 viewed and configured. Please note, since container tracks don't have data of their own, turning one
 on via track search may result in no additional tracks in the browser. If this occurs, it is because
 none of the tracks within the container were turned on.</p> 
 <p> 
 <strong>Track information: </strong> To find out more information about a track, click on the Track 
 Name. The description of the track or the container track will pop-up. Click &quot;x&quot; at the 
 top of the pop-up or the &quot;OK&quot; at the bottom to close it. For tracks that have metadata, 
 mainly ENCODE tracks at this time, there is a &quot;...&quot; link on the right-hand side of the 
 track result row. Clicking this link expands the row to show the track's metadata.</p> 
 <p>
 <strong>Sorting:</strong> By default, resulting tracks are listed in order of relevance. However,
 in the blue header of the results list, the sort order can be changed by selecting one of the other 
 radio buttons, &quot;Alphabetically&quot; or &quot;by Hierarchy&quot; (super-tracks listed first,