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Re: 2 questions - describe the logo or just say it's the logo? aria role for contact info?

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From: Ramón Corominas
Date: Jan 11, 2013 1:17PM

I would never put alt="" for the logo of a website.

The logo is not decorative content. Indeed, it is usually the main
component of corporate identity. Putting an alt="" to the logo makes it
invisible to blind users, and they might want to download the logo in
order to use it in a document, for example.

Regards,
Ramón.


Birkir wrote:

> Regarding the logo/link. I generally get annoyed by information about
> logos, find them more of a visual candy usually.
> How about putting the sentence after the logo into the link and set
> the logo´s alt to ""
> Then a link would read:
> "inclusive media & design : web media accessibility for all"
> I am not sure where the link points though or why it is a link at all
> (isn't the "home" link part of the navigation menu just a little bit
> below?