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Have you witnessed users using screen readers? It's kinda mind blowing, especially the speed the information is read out. Interestingly some of the guidelines a
by wizofaus 4y ago
Have you witnessed users using screen readers? It's kinda mind blowing, especially the speed the information is read out. Interestingly some of the guidelines are potentially problematic in that for such users it's often better not to even know about decorative images such as logos etc., but most checkers/tutorials encourage developers to add Alt text to everything.
- PaulHoule 4y agoIt’s in the guidelines that 100% decorative images don’t need alt text. In general I think the model of ‘follow a bunch of rules’ is less effective than ‘bring a screen reader user in to help with testing’ but few organizations will do the later. At one point though I was pretty good at using the app I work on in a screen reader.
- wizofaus 4y agoThe problem is when the logo serves some other purpose, like on HN where it takes you back to the home page, and that's not uncommon. Alt text describing what the image is isn't all that useful to a blind user, but text describing what the link does may well be. Yet many of the examples you see online just suggest adding "Company logo" as the Alt text, or even "Company logo that's a stylised letter Y contained by a square border". No screen-reader user wants to hear that every time they navigate to a new page!