{"id":744,"date":"2016-12-13T11:28:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/?p=744"},"modified":"2017-02-07T21:45:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T03:45:07","slug":"images-of-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/images-of-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Using images of text"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Avoid using images of text. It injures kittens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Slightly longer read<\/h3>\n<p>Actual text is <strong>almost always<\/strong> better with respect to accessibility. If you are using graphical text embedded within a larger image then there are restrictions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>As the image becomes smaller (think mobile phone) the text will, most likely, become unreadable. This is especially true of users with low vision.<\/li>\n<li>For people using a screen reader the text is only readable via alt text.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are an increasing number of ways to overlay\/add text to images. The Slides and Features afforded on the Libraries sites are created, in part, to accomplish just that.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Ken for more information about adapting your message to a more accessible format.<\/p>\n<h3>TL;DR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/tutorials\/images\/textual\/\">More more information refer to the Web Accessibility Initiative.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Avoid using images of text. It injures kittens. Slightly longer read Actual text is almost always better with respect to accessibility. If you are using graphical text embedded within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}