Re: Alttext and Decorative Images

Thank you all for your very thoughtful comments and suggestions, I
will definitely factor them into my presentation to the marketing
group.

Thanks
Shivaji

On 2/15/24, Leighton, Chris <Christopher.Leighton@team.telstra.com> wrote:
> Hello Shivaji,
>
> I suggest that your builds act honourably in using accessibility markup as
> it is intended for disability groups. The reason, search algorithms are
> very, very smart. Cynical behaviour may be punished much more severely than
> you may think some minor markup tweaks deserves.
>
> Google is smart & doesn't 'talk to you' before downranking or banning your
> site. They don't even advise you of the downranking.
>
> HTH, regards, Chris
>
>
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> Dear all,
>
> A marketing group I am working with wants to use alttext for decorative
> images to improve indexing and ranking for SEO purposes.
>
> The proposed solution is to add aria-hidden="true" to avoid any negative
> impact of this implementation for screen reader users.
>
> Is this an effective solution? Or, are there other implementations that can
> produce equally/better results for for both accessibility consumers and SEO
> purposes?
>
> Thanks
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Check out my recent accessibility publication
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/jbir/jbir21/jbir110204.html

JAWS® Certified Trainer, 2018

Twitter handle
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My Blog
https://digitalaccess365.wordpress.com/

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Received on Friday, 16 February 2024 01:33:49 UTC