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Web accessibility ensures that content is usable and inclusive for all individuals. Standards supports alternate text for media, and content tags for text enhancing screen reader functionality.
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Alternate Text
When using Media throughout your project, it is important to keep accessibility in mind. Standards allows you to include meta descriptions for both Media elements, and the Files themselves.
What image descriptions are
Image descriptions are short text based statements that describe the subject or the meaning of visual content, and are programmed to display when that visual content is not available, such as when browsing with a screen reader.
How descriptions are displayed
- If a Media element and the File it’s referencing both include a description, the Media description will be shown.
- If a File includes a description, but the Media element referencing that file does not, the File description will be shown.
- If neither the Media element or the File it’s referencing include a description, no description with be shown.
Add alternate text to Media
- Within the editor, select Media
- In the right sidebar at the bottom, there is a settings group named Accessibility
- Input alternate text into the field
Writing descriptions for Media elements
When writing a description for a Media element, it is often best practice is to describe the context or meaning of the media rather than the subject, since the file could easily change.
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Example: “Demonstration of proper logo clearspace”
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Add alternate text to a File
- Within the editor, select the Files tab from the top right of the sidebar
- Select the desired file
- Input alternate text into the Image description field
Writing descriptions for Files
When writing a description for a File, the best practice is to simply describe the subject or content rather than the meaning, since it could be placed in any context.
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