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From: bobby accessibility
Date: Aug 17, 2020 2:40AM

Dear Vaibhav,

Choosing a logo as heading or H1 should not be a wise decision and it will
break accessibility specially for UX..

I will suggest following acceptance criteria for logo:

1. It should be announced with a graphic logo (link or button) I will
prefer to announce this as a link
2. Exemptions for Color contrast for logo no need to worry if contrast
ratio is below 4.5:1.
3.It should be consistent all across the application.as move with top
navigation.

Hope this helps.

cheers,
Bobby


On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 10:29 PM Vaibhav Saraf < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> Thanks for sharing your point of view.
>
> The logo is identified on all the pages as a link but one page where it is
> a button. Yes it might not be right to classify it as a failure of
> consistent identification but it is deviating from the standard use of a
> button.
>
> Thanks,
> Vaibhav
>
>
> On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 02:16, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > On 15/08/2020 17:19, Vaibhav Saraf wrote:
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > I was auditing a website where on the login page they had programmed
> the
> > > logo to be a button and a heading level 1.
> > >
> > > On all other pages the logo was programmed as a button so I had failed
> it
> > > for coonsistent identification.
> >
> > Consistent identification wouldn't be quite the right SC in any case.
> > It's more about consistently identifying (in text/name) the same
> > control/functionality the same way across pages, not that there's some
> > consistency (of roles or whatever) between similar controls on the same
> > page.
> >
> > > But I had this particular doubt for treating the logo as a <h1>, after
> > > login for a specific group the website redirects to one deployed on a
> > > sub-domain, on all of the pages in the sub-domain the logo is marked as
> > > <h1>.
> >
> > It's fine as long as it's consistent. Some folks like logos as <h1>s,
> > others don't. What matters more is that it's predictable/implemented the
> > same way across all pages, so once an AT user understands that that's
> > the convention on that site, there's no further surprises for them.
> >
> > P
> > --
> > Patrick H. Lauke
> >
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> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >