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String wording in nonvisual #565

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mattgarrish opened this issue Jan 3, 2025 · 2 comments
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String wording in nonvisual #565

mattgarrish opened this issue Jan 3, 2025 · 2 comments
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a11y-display-guide Issue with the UX Guide principles or techniques

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@mattgarrish
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In the nonvisual reading section the first possible output is "Has alt text". I wonder if this term is more familiar to developers than the average reader. WCAG uses "text alternatives", for example. Maybe we should consider using the same term, or at least spell out alternative in full?

The use of "read aloud" is also easy to confuse in this section. For example: "Readable in read aloud or dynamic braille"

It sounds like two adjectives for how to read braille (read aloud braille or dynamic braille). Switching positions would remove the potential for ambiguity ("Readable in dynamic braille or read aloud") or simply adding another "in" after the "or" ("Readable in read aloud or in dynamic braille").

@mattgarrish mattgarrish added the a11y-display-guide Issue with the UX Guide principles or techniques label Jan 3, 2025
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WRT "alt text", we're also using this as a grouping term for alt text, long descriptions, and described math. It may make people think only the alt attribute for images is considered.

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We wanted to emphasise alt text for publishers since they have spent so much time and money on their alt text.

If we want to broaden, please suggest some wording.

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