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Section 508 and WCAG: Why Should a Learning Designer Care

CommLab India

Providing a text alternative that describes media such as images or animations is important to help visually impaired learners understand what’s happening onscreen. The primary way to make media accessible is by creating ALT tags for images and text transcripts for audio. We need to provide descriptive text for all images.

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Make your training website more accessible: 10 essential tips

Arlo Training & Events Software

Provide clear ALT text for all images you use You should provide descriptive alternative text for images to help users with visual impairments understand the content of the image. The image below from Ahrefs highlights the point perfectly: 2. – Provide captions and other alternatives for multimedia.

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Why Colour Contrast Matters for Web Accessibility?

Hurix Digital

When using color for images and text, here are a few things to keep in mind when designing our products. Test your color contrast: Use online tools to test the contrast ratio of your text and background colors. This can help you ensure that your design meets the recommended contrast ratios for accessibility.

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5 Most Common Web Accessibility Issues to Avoid & Fix

Hurix Digital

This will broaden your target audience and potential market base, strengthening your brand image. Using buttons or images to represent a link without any image alt text will also misguide the users, as assistive technologies cannot interpret any button or image functioning as a link in the absence of alt text.

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A Comprehensive Mobile Accessibility Testing Checklist

Hurix Digital

The following are some important points to consider in this regard: Ensure to include a programmatically-discernible text alternative for any information conveyed through color or a color change. Check if the contrast ratio between text and its background is at least 3:1 for large text and 4.5:1 1 for small text.

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Top Five Tips to Create Accessible Content

CourseArc

Alt text, also known as alt description or alt attribute, is a textual description for non-text elements on the screen, such as images, graphics, photographs and drawings. If there is no alt text, the screen reader will simply say “IMAGE” with no frame of reference. Avoid the use of the term “image of” or “picture of”.

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PDF Remediation for Specific Disabilities: Considerations and Strategies

Hurix Digital

These techniques include optimizing color contrast, adding alternative text for images, structuring content logically, and ensuring compatibility with assistive technologies. Alternative Text Inclusion: Adding descriptive alternative text helps screen readers convey image content accurately.

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