exploratory Supplemental requirement
Image Types Identified
Summary in Plain English
An exploratory requirement: the type of an image is indicated - a photo, a chart, an illustration. Images that are links, buttons, or purely decorative are exempt.
Why It Matters
Knowing the kind of image sets expectations about what the alternative will contain and whether a longer description is worth seeking out.
Scope: When This Applies
The draft's own conditions, quoted from guidelines/groups/images-and-media/image-alternatives/image-types-identified.md.
Except when
- An image is a link or a part of a link.
- An image is a button or a part of a button.
- An image is purely decorative (such as an icon used alongside text, or a thumbnail image within a link).
Examples from the Draft
Worked examples the W3C editors wrote into the provision itself, not examples invented here.
Types include, but are not limited to:
- photograph
- illustration
- chart
- infographic
- map
- graph
- screenshot
- headshot
- diagram