Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150929231108/@comment-154566-20151021034839

Fandyllic wrote: Have you submitted it to Special:Contact/bug yet? Yep, I let them know. I suspect lazy-load JavaScript in wikiamobile skin swaps the placeholder out for the real, but doesn't copy over alt or any other attributes from the placeholder. And I confirmed with a screen reader (TIL screen readers on mobile are a thing) that the alt text is not spoken in wikiamobile.