在某些情况下，对于html img标签，alt =“”是否合适？

We have a project that is all about web accessibility compliance. About a week from launch we have the accessibility committee reviewing our site to give the final thumbs up. However, they reported back to us that we should set alt="" on some of our icons because they do not provide any additional content to the site and thus are merely distracting to a screen reader but yield no benefit. We have a project that is all about web accessi