A Long Description of graphics is important to website accessibility

Long Descriptions of Website Graphics

Long Description of the graphics used on a good website design, help people with disabilities to understand what the pictures, logos, seals and other non-text content is meant to convey to the visitor. Although each image is required to have an alt text attribute to validate, the alt text description is limited to 80 characters. A complex picture might require a much longer written description to convey all the intended information that the picture represents. Designing any optimized, accessible website, requires the designer to fully describe in written words, exactly what each picture represents. Graphics are of absolutely no search engine value, without adequate words to describe them. To a good search engine, a good descriptive word is worth a thousand pictures!

Long Descriptions of Our Website Graphics

Our Graphic, followed by it's Long Description:

The Keyhole symbol

The long description:

This symbol was chosen by the National Center for Accessible Media in a design competition, to best represent and portray to sighted website visitors, that the website could also be accessed and navigated by visitors with disabilities. The official long description is: A globe, marked with a grid, tilts at an angle. A keyhole is cut into its surface. This long description is particularly important to anyone who can't see the actual picture.

SEO Website Designers Logo

The long description:

A dark blue square surrounded by a gold border with centered, white, bold letters S, E, O above the word Design. This symbol was chosen to represent both who we are and what we do.

ICRA Label

The long description:

A horizontal rectangle with a stylized globe containing a vertical letter i, followed by the letters I, C, R, A. This symbol represents a child friendly content website. Any violation of the use of this label on a website with adult only content, should be reported to the Internet Content Rating Association.

Valid CSS

The long description:

A horizontal rectangle containing W3C follow by the letters C, S, S followed by a check mark. This symbol indicates that the stylesheets used on this site have been validated by W3C to conform to established guidelines.

The International Webmasters Association

The long description:

A gold bordered oval with the words International Webmasters Association surrounding the letters I, W, A. A second oval below contains the word, member.

Anti-spamming logo

The long description:

A horizontal rectangle containing a symbol, a circle with a diagonal line across it over a waste paper basket and an envelop partially visible. The circle is followed by the words: PROMOTE RESPONSIBLE NET COMMERCE followed by the words: Help stamp out spamming. Many forms of spam are published on or distributed via the web. Reducing this volume, could save all of us many hours of wasted effort. Webpages that contain useless or strictly self-promotional information can also be described as spam.

W3C WAI AA WCAG

The long description:

A horizontal rectangle similar to all W3C labels. This label contains all the letters in the title, W3C AND W, C, A, G.

Valid XHTML 1.0

The long description:

A horizontal rectangle containing the text: W3C followed by the letters: XHTML, followed by the number: 1.0, followed by a check mark. This label and the link it sends the user to, are verification that the page containing the label is written correctly, using proper code. The Validation page states, To show your readers that you have taken the care to create an inter operable Web page, you may display this icon on any page that validates. Most of the pages on our website are valid xhtml 1.0 Strict documents.

Cynthia Tested

The long description:

A horizontal rectangle containing the text: Cynthia tested. The symbol and the link associated with it, shows the visitor that the webpage has been checked for accessibility compliance.

ICRA Associate Member

The long description:

A vertical blue rectangle containing the text: Associate Member and the association logo.

Validome

The long description:

A horizontal grey rectangle containing the text: Validome XHTML 1.0. This validator provides enhanced validation services, including XML and google site map validation.

ICRAChecked Label

The long description:

A circle with the letters I.C.R.A, the Internet Content Rating Association logo and a check mark. The symbol of a properly labeled site that is automatically verifiable in the ICRA database.

FOSI Label

The long description:

A horizontal rectangle containing the words fosi.org and associate member.

Long Descriptions Summary:

Long descriptions should be a concise, accurate, text summary of the graphic. A brief explanation of the importance or historical meaning can also help users to put the graphic into context.

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