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From: Angela French
Date: Tue, Feb 28 2017 11:36AM
Subject: alt vs no alt on picture links
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This page<http://www.sbctc.edu/for-employers/default.aspx>; is a landing page. In its main content area it contains a paragraph of introductory text then three pictures with links to new pages. The three picture-links are "Economic Development", "Employer Grants and Loans" and "Centers of Excellence". The picture and the text are in separate divs and these are wrapped in the anchor tag so that both the picture and the text becomes clickable.
When I listed with NVDA the alt text for the three pictures sounds cumbersome . Since the picture is just basically "eye candy" for the navigational link, I'm inclined to provide a null alt attribute.
I would appreciate your opinion.
Angela French
Internet/Intranet Specialist
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Tue, Feb 28 2017 1:00PM
Subject: Re: alt vs no alt on picture links
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On 28/02/2017 18:36, Angela French wrote:
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> Since the picture is just basically "eye candy" for the navigational link, I'm inclined to provide a null alt attribute.
Agree.
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From: Weissenberger, Todd M
Date: Tue, Feb 28 2017 1:05PM
Subject: Re: alt vs no alt on picture links
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I'd go with that, based on WCAG technique H2 (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H2.html) and because in this case, the images don't provide any real content.
$0.02
Todd
T.M. Weissenberger
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Security and Policy Office
University of Iowa
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From: Lovely, Brian (CONT)
Date: Tue, Feb 28 2017 1:10PM
Subject: Re: alt vs no alt on picture links
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Yep, there's already (actually useful) text in the anchor that will read out: "Economic Development" for instance. The images are purely decorative, so alt attribute set to an empty value is the way to go.
From: Karl Brown
Date: Wed, Mar 01 2017 4:25AM
Subject: Re: alt vs no alt on picture links
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+1 for Brian's comment. alt="" will meet WCAG 1.1.1 by giving screen
readers a way to ignore the image, and if someone queries it, the purpose
of the images are met by the text in the same link.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Lovely, Brian (CONT) <
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> Yep, there's already (actually useful) text in the anchor that will read
> out: "Economic Development" for instance. The images are purely decorative,
> so alt attribute set to an empty value is the way to go.
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