Homepage Posts & Carousel blocks: change alt text on linked image to improve accessibility

[laurelfulford]

One of our publishers had a third-party audit their site for accessibility, and they came back with the following suggestion for the Homepage Posts block:

This image link is not properly labeled. Ensure this image is assigned an alt attribute that tells users where this link goes and/or what it does.

Reference: 2.4.4 (WCAG 2.0 A)

WordPress recently updated the Featured Image block to use the post title as the alt text , so that could be the same fix we use here.

Though it wasn't included in the report, the Post Carousel has a similar set up, with the image linking to the article.

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[matticbot]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 1.50.0 🎉

The release is available on:

• npm package (@latest dist-tag)
• GitHub release

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