I was under the impression that this was done to assist people with vision difficulties who are using text-to-voice style software to do their web surfing.
Web dev here — This definitely reads as an assistive description, rather than a caption. But typically the description for assistive tech is done "behind the scenes" in an alt text or longdesc HTML tag, so writing it out again as a visible caption would be annoyingly redundant for folks with a screen reader. Me, I'd have omitted a caption altogether in this case, but maybe it's a mandatory part of the template? One never knows, does one? :)
I was under the impression that this was done to assist people with vision difficulties who are using text-to-voice style software to do their web surfing.
ReplyDeleteThat's entirely possible. First I've ever seen such.
DeleteWeb dev here — This definitely reads as an assistive description, rather than a caption. But typically the description for assistive tech is done "behind the scenes" in an alt text or longdesc HTML tag, so writing it out again as a visible caption would be annoyingly redundant for folks with a screen reader. Me, I'd have omitted a caption altogether in this case, but maybe it's a mandatory part of the template? One never knows, does one? :)
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