This Is What You're Doing When You Put That In Your Alt Text - Tumblr Posts
5 months ago
Please, for the love of god alt text writers, STOP putting links in your alt text!!! It does nothing helpful, gets in the way of actually describing things, blocks screen readers from reading any real text, they can't be clicked on, it's just the worst! Alt text is for DESCRIBING what is going on in your image and nothing else!
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I love that there's enough alt text that I am actually running into examples that are bad
I love that people are genuinely trying with this that's is awesome
but this is one area where a hindrance is legitimately being created
imagine you're reading something and the web site url appears on the screen and you cannot get past it for a solid minute
this is what you're doing when you put that in your alt text
it is not accessible nor necessary and it's completely useless
put the link under the image where it can be clicked on please