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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: sfeldman@sympatico.ca
Date: Jan 11, 2013 4:15PM

hey Ramón, hi Birkir

http://www.inclusivemedia.ca/index.shtml
Here is what we have for now. The alt on the logo is "IMD logo" and the
link includes the logo and the company name.

I have put in a longdesc. I can imagine wanting to hear a description of
the logo once, but the thing is on every page. Have these been
deprecated? I seem to remember something like that, but it seems like a
reasonable solution.

Does having the navigation (etc.) on the longdesc page make sense?

thanks,
Sandy



>> 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?