Image gallery frameworks! They're everywhere! And yet I haven't found even one that doesn't suck. They're clunky at best and inaccessible at worst.

Here is a sampler of issues I've encountered on various image galleries:

• Requires Javascript to work (clunky, inaccessible)
• Doesn't have alt text (inaccessible)
• Lightboxes (clunky, usually inaccessible, probably requires Javascript)
• Just a bunch of thumbnails that link to image files (inaccessible)
• Images open in a tooltip (worse than lightboxes in every conceivable way)

There must be a better way. Right???