5709a7858d5c197721be66d5218a79124abadb70
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/pubs.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/pubs.html
index 75a264995d0..6806cdceb47 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/pubs.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/pubs.html
@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <!--#set var="TITLE" value="UCSC Genome Browser: Publications" -->
 <!--#set var="ROOT" value=".." -->
 
 <!-- Relative paths to support mirror sites with non-standard GB docs install -->
 <!--#include virtual="$ROOT/inc/gbPageStart.html" -->
 
 <a title="National Human Genome Research Institute [2-U24-HG002371-23]">
 <h1>Selected Publications</h1>
 </a>
 <h6>This page lists publications directly funded by the NHGRI grant [<em>U24HG002371</em>] to the UCSC Genome Browser. View more publications by Genome Browser 
 staff here:
 <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=UCSC+Genome+Browser" target="_blank">
-<img class="gbsInlineImg" src="../images/googleScholar.png"></a></h6>
+<img alt="" class="gbsInlineImg" src="../images/googleScholar.png"></a></h6>
 
 <h2>2025</h2>
 <p>
 Speir ML, Teh WK, Perry MD, Schwartz R, Nejad P, Harris T, Fischer C, Diekhans M, Lee BT, Paten B
 <em>et al</em>.
 <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06142-x" target="_blank">
 Making genomic data FAIR through effective Data Portals</a>.
 <em>Sci Data</em>. 2025 Nov 28;12(1):1872.
 PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/41315456" target="_blank">41315456</a>; PMC: <a
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12663326/" target="_blank">PMC12663326</a>
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Casper J, Speir ML, Raney BJ, Perez G, Nassar LR, Lee CM, Hinrichs AS, Gonzalez JN, Fischer C,
 Diekhans M <em>et al</em>.