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Have you identified which images are meaningful and which images are decorative in mockups?

  • Aiguo’s page didn’t load all the way and didn’t get to download the images.
  • Amanda is blind and uses a braille reader to understand the contents of images.
  • Julie turns off images due to only having low bandwidth available in rural and remote locations
  • John is looking for information with a search engine and needs help being directed to the right content (descriptive alt tags will improve search).

Steps to take

  1. Images that are purely decorative shouldn’t be announced by the screen reader, work with your front end developer to make sure they’re coded correctly.
  2. Images that have meaning should include alt text and possibly a longer description, work with the content designer on your team to create these.
  3. Making sure any text in images of text is at least 14 points and has good contrast.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Page last updated: 22 June 2021