6.1 No Alternatives for Non-text Information

Affected Group: Persons with poor vision

Alternatives should always be provided for non-text information.

Images should contain descriptive text alternatives that effectively describe the images.

Consider the example below. If you have this image on your website, how would a visually impaired person understand the content of the image?

Visually impaired users will use screen readers to read the text alternative of the image. If no text alternative is provided, or improper text alternative is assigned, visually impaired users are unable to understand the meaning of the image.

If improper text alternative assigned screen reader user is unable to understand the meaning of the image.