Katy,

 

Context is everything. The big page-size picture that opens a long-form piece sets the mood of everything that follows. Is there a relationship between one image/photo and the next? Is the dominant color relevant? Is the mood relevant? What conclusions are they trying to make you draw from that image/photo? Who is the audience?

 

Also, I asked our Digital Media Specialist and he said,

 

“When designing a web page, the how/where images are incorporated for navigation/content needs to be part of accessibility plan and there's a lot more involved in making sure things work correctly, e.g. including a text "next page" link in addition to an image-button "next page" link. There are also considerations when it comes to contrast/visibility and colors-used.

Web design is a different discussion than making sure general-use images are ADA-compliant. A general-use image, for example, an image we create from scanning a 1940's b&w film negative from University Archives or a JPG of an Excel bar chart, is very reliant on the system displaying the image in terms of what is allowed, but how each needs to be described for patron-use may be very, very different.

Webaim has some good examples as thought experiments https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/

And Jim Thatcher's website is an oldie, but a goodie: http://www.jimthatcher.com/webcourse2.htm “

 

Interesting question,

Scott

 

Scott Pope

Continuing Resources Librarian | Alkek Library | Texas State University

601 University Dr. | San Marcos, TX 78666

pope@txstate.edu 

phone 512.245.8737

 

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