Understanding 1.4.5 Images of Text

Any information that is valuable to the user should not be strictly an image. If the user might find the information useful, it should be able to be customized to fit their needs.

How AudioEye Helps

AudioEye uses IRIS and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to provide alt tags for images of text, which can accelerate the remediation process. Certain images may be remediated through automated processes, while others may be manually observed and fixed by AudioEye testers developers.

The reason this success criteria is only set to partially resolved is because:

Most site owners will benefit from authoring their own alt text and, over the long run, will not want the AudioEye solution or AudioEye personnel authoring site content that impacts the way images are conveyed to users relying on screen readers or the descriptions that might have an impact on a site’s SEO score. This is particularly true for online retailers. Relying on any 3rd party to author image descriptions isn’t advised. 

While AudioEye is effective at keeping images optimized to meet the Success Criteria, we always encourage site owners to take the little bit of time required to author short, meaningful descriptions on their own.

Warnings

AudioEye collaborates with Managed customers to assist them in identifying and understanding alternative descriptions for images of text. Images of text should be avoided. Certain assistive technologies include character limits for alt text and overly verbose alt descriptions lead to a poor user experience. 

Graphs, screenshots, and diagrams that convey information that is more than just text must include a written description of the data or include data in charts as HTML tables.