Kilotest: Diagnoses of image name contains image violation by HTML element 360 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Basics

About the Freedom of the Press Foundation page

About HTML element 360

About the image name contains image issue

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the image name contains image issue for HTML element 360 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation page.

  1. <p>This image's alt text is "Image of a lock hovering over a computer screen containing many data points.," which mentions that this image is an image.</p> <p>Screen readers announce they are describing an image when reading alt text, so phrases like "image of" and "photo of" are usually redundant in alt text; the screen reader user hears "image: image of something."</p> <p>Note that this is OK if the format is referring to the <strong>content</strong> of the image:</p> <ul><li>Format is redundant: "<em>photo of</em> a VHS tape"</li> <li>Format is relevant: "<em>photo of</em> a VHS tape in a photo album being discussed in a history class"</li></ul>

    Tool: Editoria11y (Princeton University)

    Rule: altImageOf