Lane, Ryan Ryan.Lane@ocean.navo.navy.mil wrote:
It's better to display it as alt text, so that the irrelevant information is hidden if the browser does in fact support images (which will practically always be the case).
Wouldn't this cause confusion for people using screen readers?
Not if it's carefully worded. With the alt text, screen readers might output something like "Logging you in to Wikimedia's other projects / (this requires that images be enabled)".