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Re: quick question on alt text

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From: Murphy, Sean
Date: Dec 5, 2019 5:20PM

You didn't indicate if the text and graphic are interactive or not. Is this the case?

Sean


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I'm very familiar with alt text and its uses, but I wanted to confirm what is considered "decorative". I understand graphics like bars and lines, etc. would be decorative, but what about if the alt text of an image would literally be the same as the text on the screen?

For example, "the boy asked his friend to hold the ladder for him" (that's the text on the screen). The image is of the friend holding the ladder for the boy - so alt text would be something like "boy holding ladder for another boy". It's not conveying any new or additional information, so to me it would be extraneous noise and should be null. What do you all think?

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