@arush So true. My gripes with many e-commerce sites isn’t about accessibility, as I have merely a slight visual impairment, but it’s often like they haven’t even tried to make a test of their own how to navigate the site and enter information from the point of landing on the site until purchase is complete. Some excel in this, but they’re a small minority.
@odd these gripes are absolutely valid. Accessibility is only part of the equation. And if you have a poor overall user experience, by definition it cannot be an accessible site. The usability has to be there first.
@arush Been experimenting with e-commerce as static html sites....the checkout is third party. Should check that.
Question for you. If I have a written item description and photo of the item would I leave alt text blank?
Feel like I need better product descriptions for screen readers rather then paragraphs of alt text
@jgmac1106 YOur alt text should be brief and to the point, so it should contain a lot less than your paragraph description. For example, if you were selling clothing, and you spent a paragraph describing/marketing the clothing, and your image was of a man or woman wearing a particular article, your alt text would say something like "woman wearing" followed by the article of clothing. This would compliment the paragraph describing the clothing and marketing it. I hope this is helpful.