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Re: Alternate text for images having caption adjacent

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From: Rakesh P
Date: May 30, 2014 11:13AM

Thanks all for your suggestions. I have come to half-hearted
conclusion as follows.
1. If caption is available after the image and content follows the
caption, I will leave image with alt="". I will recommend the word
photo , screenshot etc along with the caption atleast as offscreen
text.
2. If caption is not available after the image , I will recommend
alternate text for the image, and the description of the image
follows it.
In this way we can reduce the verbos for screen reader user, and in
both the cases user will know the availability of image.

Thanks & Regards
Rakesh
On 5/30/14, Rakesh P < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On 5/30/14, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>> I totally agree with you Jared in regard with verbos, but my concern is
>> Consider If alt="" is used instead of "Image of or photo of Jared" in
>> alternate text, screen reader will not announce that an image of Jared is
>> available in the
>>
>> Yes, this does get tricky. It really depends on the situation. For
>> example, a caption of me at a tweetup might state "Jon at the CSUN
>> tweetup". But the alt text might explain a lot more detail such as the
>> funny hat I'm wearing or the Got 508? T-shirt I'm wearing, etc. What the
>> image is conveying may very widely. For example, if my profile picture
>> shows me hiking as sighted person could infer I like or have been hiking
>> and a simple caption of "Jon Avila" wouldn't tell the user is blind and
>> visually impaired that information -- such information could be useful in
>> networking, etc.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>