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Accessibility - adding alt text to characters from character library
I'm thinking more "middle aged woman in corporate clothing with hand on hip and smiling". Although if it is a recurring character, maybe include name and physical description the first time and then call the character by name after that as I imagine overly verbose alt text is almost as annoying as no alt text. I do know a few accessibility consultants who are themselves vision impaired if you would like me to ask them. In the meantime, this advice from the UK seems good: http://www2.le.ac.uk/webcentre/plone/build/basics/add-images/alt-text
It is also the buttons, that have things like lightbulbs, arrows etc on them. In that case I would think something like "arrow pointing right" would be sufficient.
If images are purely decorative, I think there is something you can do like alt="" which will cause the screen reader to skim by the image.
Some more references:
http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/