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Re: Double links (image being a spearate link, then link to product)

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From: Ramya Sethuraman
Date: Feb 4, 2013 9:30AM

Not sure if this is the right approach but what if you remove the linked
image from tab order (tabindex -1) and set aria-hidden true on it? Seems
like the linked image is just for the visual experience. A keyboard only
user or a jaws user would get the exact same information from the real link
below the image. Thoughts?


On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Good morning/afternoon/evening yea wise people.
> I have been conducting extensive testing of multiple websites for the
> Icelandic Web Association awards. It's been a very interesting
> experience, where one starts seeing emerging patterns, to which one
> needs to find solutions.
> I have one or two separate ones, but will perhaps post them later.
> The one I am refering to is extremely common in online stores.
> First we have a link to an image of the product (I guess it's a
> clickable image), no alt text, no text inside the anchor tag usually,
> screen reader reads the name of the graphics file, usually with the
> words "graphic link", at least Jaws does.
> Right after the link (in html source order) is the "link proper" to
> the product/product description. That link is fully accessible, has
> proper text inside etc.
>
> I've seen this at
> http://www.buy.com and www.newegg.com
> I came across this pattern on the Icelandic website
> http://www.eirberg.is (all in Icelandic, but you easily see the
> pattern without understanding the text).
> I am wondering what to advise the website developers/designers in this
> regard.
> Is there any benefit from having a separate link to the image, rather
> than putting the image with the src attribute, inside the anchor tag
> for the product, thus using a single link.
> From screen reading point of view that would make the ost sense.
> If we keep a separate image-only link, should it be hidden with
> aria-hidden, should it have proper alt text, in which case users get
> the same link essentially twice for every product listed on the page,
> or is there another solution that would work?
> Any ideas/suggestions always more than welcome.
> -B
> > > >



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