Site Audit: Alt text

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Overview

We need to have our site meet Accessibility standards for alt text so that we can meet our mission of inclusivity.

Action Items

• List all site pages for audit below.
• Review the article for the instructions about which type of images should not have alt text.
• Review the images on the site and designate which images get alt text and designate this on the Alt text audit tracker.
• Check off each page in the list below after audit is completed on that page.
• Alert dev lead after each page is finished for issue creation.

Resources/Instructions

https://www.boia.org/blog/8-common-image-alt-text-mistakes-to-stop-making

for future ticket for developers on images that do not need alt text.

The image referred to in this issue is a decorative image and requires a null alt attribute (e.g. alt="")

WCAG section on alt text
FAE rule 4: alt text should be less than 100 characters
Alt text audit tracker

List of Pages that need audits:

• Program Areas Review the alt text for program-area page images and ensure that they adhere to WCAG #2354

[kristine-eudey]

Update this issue with all the pages that need audit.

[IsaacDesigns]

@ExperimentsInHonesty hse decided that we will divide all pages up between designers and developers in issue #2515.

Then design will annotate the alt text within each page.