WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Useful Alt Text?

for

From: youngv5
Date: Jun 14, 2011 12:36PM

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".




From:
Donald Evans < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To:
WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Date:
06/14/2011 02:12 PM
Subject:
Re: [WebAIM] Useful Alt Text?
Sent by:
<EMAIL REMOVED>



You should use alt="" on the image.
See: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H2.html


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:08 PM, McDonald, Jennifer
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The information contained in this communication may be confidential, is
> intended
> only for the use of the recipient(s) named above, and may be legally
> privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended
recipient,
> you
> are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of
> this
> communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you
have
> received this communication in error, please notify the sender
immediately
> and
> destroy or delete the original message and any copy of it from your
> computer
> system. If you have any questions concerning this message, please
contact
> the
> sender.
>
>
===============================================================================>