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Re: Best practice with ALT text

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From: David Farough
Date: Jan 6, 2016 12:24PM

Option 3 seems to be the best in my view but even better would be to add
the same page link to the list.

David Farough

Coordonnateur de l'accessibilité des applications, Services intégrés de
gestion des TI
Commission de la fonction publique du Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
<EMAIL REMOVED> Tél: 819-420-8418 Télécopieur :
819-420-8408

Application Accessibility Co-ordinator, Corporate IT Management
Public Service Commission of Canada / Government of Canada
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>>> "Alan Zaitchik" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 11:22 AM Wednesday,
January 06, 2016 >>>
I have wondered about the following for some time.

If I am creating a web page which uses a graphic with text, e.g. a list
of services provided by some client, and the web page itself has the
SAME text, should I mark the graphic as decorative (ALT="")? Should I
set the ALT attribute to the same text? Or should I do something like
ALT="list of services provided by XYZ, presented elsewhere on this
page"?
The first won't help users with limited, but not totally absent vision,
who may wonder what the text in the image is. The second will
inconvenience users employing a screen reader who now hear the same text
twice. The third makes reference to "elsewhere on this page" which just
seems a bit odd. All things considered, I'm thinking that option 3 is
actually the most generally beneficial. What do you do? Please do not
suggest redesigning the page altogether since we do not have control
over the contents and page elements in many cases, alas.

A


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