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Re: Useful Alt Text?

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From: Donald Evans
Date: Jun 14, 2011 12:30PM

Good point. It's also much better for Search Engine Optimization.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:27 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Although it is WCAG 2.0 Level AAA, allowing links to be read out of
> context is very helpful. Screen reader users may pull up a list of links
> by pressing the JAWS (Insert) + F7 key. Hearing a bunch or even one "More
> Info" link is not very user friendly. Possibly try "More Info about blah
> blah blah".
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> From:
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> Date:
> 06/14/2011 02:12 PM
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> Re: [WebAIM] Useful Alt Text?
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> You should use alt="" on the image.
> See: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H2.html
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> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:08 PM, McDonald, Jennifer
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:
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> > If your webpage has an icon (not a link) in front of a "Read More" link,
> > does that icon need to have alt text? When I run the page through JAWS
> > it seems overly verbose to me. What is read is: "Graphic - read more
> > image (which is the alt text at this time) - Link - Read More".
> >
> > Is this useful to screen reader users? I would probably would not call
> > this a "meaningful" image and thus provide an empty alt. Would doing
> > this be detrimental to anyone? Just checking before I make that
> > recommendation.
> >
> > -Jeni
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