WCAG: 1.1 Text Alternatives

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Requirement

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#text-alternatives

Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.

Current Situation

❌ Aside from user-content, the overwhelming majority of front end content is text, with non-text content as decorative. The audit has found some incorrect markup. While this audit excludes User-Content, we have recognised that the majority of non-text content is user-content and so are updating our alt-text support accordingly.

Work to do

Incorrect markup

• presentational element is exposed to assistive technologies #3923
• text not included in an ARIA landmark #3924
• markup decorative hr tags as decorative #4212
• Icon A11y improvements #4215
• Update missing image descriptions identified during front end audit #4217
• Clean theme should describe thumbnail article images on homepage #4213

Captcha

• Implement Accessible Captcha #4058

Alternative Text

• alt text #2825
• image missing a text alternative [page header] #3943
• image missing a text alternative [issue covers] #3938

Exclusions

User non-text content

Support Alt Text for Images

As stated above, we need to support alt-text for images. This will can then be used to support users with:

• journal logo / header image
• issue cover images (inc thumbnails)
• article illustrations
• news illustrations
• profile pictures/editorial board profile images
• sensory specific experiences

It must also enable images to be marked as decorative.

Non-text content outside scope of this issue

• test - tests and exercises are not anticipated content for the Janeway platform.
• time-based media - will be discussed in WCAG: 1.2 Timebased Media #4125