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From: Steve Green
Date: Feb 28, 2023 3:19AM

I was about to recommend the same thing. It sounds like you are starting from such a low base that asking questions like this is not going to be an effective way to learn. There are plenty of people and organisations here who could advise on a professional basis, including ourselves.

The questions you asked are good ones, but some of them don't have simple answers. Often the answers we can give just raise more questions.

In the case of the images, it depends on whether they are links, in which case what do the links do. If they are not links, do they convey important information that is not in the surrounding text?

If the images do need a text alternative, this can be provided in a variety of ways. With websites like yours, we often find that the alternate text is stored in the digital asset management system (DAM), so it is always the same wherever that image is used. There are some advantages to that, but also disadvantages because the appropriate alternate text depends on the context in which the image is used. We usually find that images in the DAM have been given alternate text that is a literal description of the image, which is almost always inappropriate.

I don't understand your question about Zoom because you seem to be mixing up text sizing with colour contrast.

Icons and symbols do not need to be scalable, although it would be unusual if they did not increase in size when the browser zoom level is increased.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd