Image of Text - Information For This Demo
Quick tip: Do not use images of text unless absolutely necessary. Images of text will not resize or take on system color and contrast combinations.
How to test this issue
- Test technique: WAVE.
- WAVE will indicate whether images have alt text. This will help identify images that contain text.
- Alternatively, you can find images of text by attempting to select the text using the mouse.
- Confirm that the alt text for the image (or other text alternative) contains the same text in a usable format.
- Also confirm that presenting the text as an image was essential to achieve the particular presentation of the information being conveyed. (In other words, if text can be similarly formatted using actual page text rather than in an image, then the text should not be presented in an image.)
Failing WCAG Guidelines and Test Tips
For the images that contain text, the following WCAG guidelines fail:
- 1.4.5: Images of Text