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Web accessibility Tip of the Month logoAs a service of our partner - the Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs (ATAP) - we have made available a series of tips about web site design and accessibility. Our friends at WebAIM produced these great web accessibility tips and we share these with you so you can use them to improve your own website. At the end of the tip we have provided link(s) to where you can get more information about the topic.

Voice Control Software and Image Alternative Text

To activate links on a page, users of voice control software, such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking, speak the visible link text. When an image is linked, the alternative text of that image can be spoken to activate that link. When an image presents graphical text, the alternative text of the image should match the visible text to ensure voice control software users can easily activate that link.

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Image credit: based upon work of Svilen.milev [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons

Revised: May 1, 2012
 
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