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Re: Question on the alt text for images...

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From: Karl Brown
Date: Jul 18, 2016 1:47AM

With your specific alt text I'd be tempted to rephrase it from:
*Configuration dialog box with the "Next" button highlighted (optionally
you could simply press the enter key rather than clicking on the "Next"
button)*

To:
To proceed, press the 'Next' button, or use the 'Enter' key


The aim of alternative text is to help someone understand the meaningful
information in some non-text content. Without seeing the image you're
describing it's hard to be specific, but I'd wonder whether the fact
something's highlighted on the image is relevant information. What I'm
reading is that these are instructions on how to move forward in a journey,
so that should be the main direction the alternative text goes in.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Whitney Quesenbery < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I'm trying to understand why you need the parentheses at all.
>
> I'm also trying to understand what the image looks like that goes along
> with the alt text you shared. It sounds like you are trying to use the alt
> text to ADD information that should be in the text or caption.
>
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 5:05 PM Thad C < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > In the use cases you provided I do not think you need quotes or
> > parentheses. In the second case I believe the phrase in parenthesis could
> > be written as a separate sentence instead of within parentheses and be
> > grammatically correct.
> >
> > Best
> > On Jul 16, 2016 11:47 AM, "Jennifer Sutton" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > > Does the question honestly still remain?
> > >
> > >
> > > Were you disagreeing with me, David, or were you explaining to Mike
> what
> > > your personal settings happened to speak, with whatever screen reader
> you
> > > happened to be using at the time?
> > >
> > >
> > > There's no question in my mind, based on decades of both using a screen
> > > reader and interacting with many many others who do. The answer is:
> write
> > > alt text like you normally would write anything else, and try not to
> make
> > > typos, like I see quite often (that's nothing screen-reader-centric;
> it's
> > > just showing that you care about alt text as much as you care about any
> > > other content you write for the web).
> > >
> > >
> > > I assumed, Mike, that the stars (asterisks) were simply for
> illustration
> > > purposes.
> > >
> > >
> > > More than my two cents.
> > >
> > > Jennifer
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/16/2016 10:03 AM, Mike Barlow wrote:
> > >
> > >> Thanks David, so the question still remains should those types of
> > >> punctuation be used in alt-text for images, or should simpler (but
> > >> possibly
> > >> longer) alt-text.
> > >>
> > >> On Jul 14, 2016 9:59 AM, "David Farough" < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> With regard to the use of quotation and parenthesis when specifying
> alt
> > >>> text, sometimes the use of parenthesis will cause a synthesizer to
> > speak
> > >>> the word, followed by the string contained within the parenthesis
> > >>> without speaking the
> > >>> parenthesis punctuation. sometimes the results are unpredictable.
> > >>> in the alt text you quoted, see below: .
> > >>> *Configuration dialog box with the "Next" button highlighted
> > >>> (optionally you could simply press the enter key rather than clicking
> > on
> > >>> the "Next" button)*
> > >>> I did not hear the quotes or parenthesis spoken. I did however hear
> > >>> the asterisks as star.
> > >>> A screen reader delivers this text as a single unit of text. The
> user
> > >>> cannot examine this text unless they use a Braille display,, or are
> > able
> > >>> to view it on screen.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> .
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> David Farough
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Professional Certificate Web Accessibility Compliance (Distinction),
University of South Australia, 2015