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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: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 11, 2013 2:26PM

Hi

In my 5 years of browsing I have never had the need to download the
logo, however you do make a good point, that scenario is simply one I
have never thought of.
What would bother me is if the logo appears on every single page on
the site, (of course sighted users might be bothered by that too I
guess).
So what if one leaves the logo on the front page and/or on the
"contact us" or "about us" page, if there is one?
Ideally I'd leave an empty alt text around the logo on the front page
if there is a clearly marked link to an "about us" page, but only some
websites have that.

Another thing about the logo. It has always botherred me that the alt
text only says "company name, logo". I would like to know a little bit
about the logo, color, shape, logo text if any, because it is the
identity of the company, and it could be beneficial to me to have an
understanding of what it looks like.
I agree with the alt usage descriptions in any other case, describe
purpose not looks, but the logo generally does not have any purpose
except to create a viaul identity of the vwebsite owner.
This is an interesting point.
-Birkir

On 1/11/13, Ramón Corominas < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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?
>
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