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name: image-crop-responsive-qa
description: "Run responsive image crop QA for websites. Use after adding or changing images, hero media, galleries, product grids, portraits, venue photos, screenshots, background images, object-fit/object-position rules, art-directed picture sources, image dimensions, layout stability, and mobile crop polish."
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# Image Crop Responsive QA

Use this skill to catch the crop, focal point, and layout bugs that make premium pages feel careless.

## Workflow

1. Inspect the project, media assets, framework image/video APIs, responsive breakpoints, accessibility requirements, and verification commands.
2. Read [Image Crop Responsive QA Guide](references/image-crop-responsive-qa-guide.md) for detailed direction before changing visuals or code.
3. Define the media's job: proof, desire, navigation, instruction, atmosphere, conversion, or accessibility.
4. Implement with stable dimensions, responsive crops, useful fallbacks, and real content hierarchy.
5. Inspect rendered desktop and mobile states, then refine crop, contrast, loading, labels, captions, and polish.

## Always Protect

- Inspect before coding: framework, image/video components, asset folders, CMS or source content, styling system, responsive breakpoints, performance checks, accessibility checks, and available browser QA commands.
- Treat images and video as content strategy, not decoration: every asset should reveal the real product, person, venue, object, interface, proof, or mood needed by the page.
- Avoid generic stock-like visuals, dark blurred filler, random gradients, and media that crops away the subject users need to inspect.
- Plan desktop, mobile, high-density, slow-network, reduced-motion, no-autoplay, failed-asset, and screen-reader states.
- Reserve layout space with dimensions, aspect-ratio, CSS constraints, or framework image components to avoid layout shift.
- Use meaningful alt text for informative images, empty alt for decorative images, captions/transcripts/tracks for media that needs them, and visible text for critical information.
- Before delivery, inspect rendered desktop and mobile media crops, verify assets load without 404s, and run available lint/build/test/browser checks.