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RE: Describing logos, it's just polite

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From: tedge
Date: Aug 19, 2002 9:39AM

Along these lines something I was taught by one of our testers who is
blind.
It would seem better if you described what the picture in the logo means
rather than say "NY inside a red apple".

The point is .. Given the user the information that is needed.
An example of this is if you have a person who has never saw anything
and your graphic description is "A stick figure pointing to a board".
This is going to mean nothing, instead saying "We teach you how" or what
ever message you are conveying.
To me this makes complete sense.




"All this talk about alt text for logos reminds me of
something an accessibility guru at Columbia Lighthouse
for the Blind told me.

He said that it's not strictly necessary to describe
what the logo looks like, just as it's not strictly
necessary for someone to describe what a room looks
like that he has entered for the first time. However,
it can be nice to know and he considered a description
of a logo to be "polite."

Now, the question becomes how to best include it. I
like using the "d-link" convention. Other ideas?"



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