G95: Providing short text alternatives that provide a brief description of the non-text content

This technique is used when the text needed to serve the same purpose and present the same information as the original non-text content is too lengthy or when this goal cannot be achieved with text alone. In that case this technique is used to provide a short text alternative that briefly describes the non-text content. (A long text alternative is then provided using another technique such that the combination serves the same purpose and presents the same information as the original non-text content.)

In deciding what text to include in the alternative, it is often a good idea to consider the following questions:

• Why is this non-text content here?

• What information is it presenting?

• What purpose does it fulfill?

• If I could not use the non-text content, what words would I use to convey the same function and/or information?

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• G74: Providing a long description in text near the non-text content, with a reference to the location of the long description in the short description
• G73: Providing a long description in another location with a link to it that is immediately adjacent to the non-text content
• G92: Providing long description for non-text content that serves the same purpose and presents the same information
• G94: Providing short text alternative for non-text content that serves the same purpose and presents the same information as the non-text content

Procedure

1. Check for the presence of a short text alternative that provides a brief description of the non-text content.

Expected Results

• Check #1 is true.

If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.