On various pages, IFDB has lists of games where each game has a cover art thumbnail that links to the page for that game, and nearby, the game's title linking to the same place. This kind of thing can cause redundancy for screen readers:
Otherwise what happens is when you’re browsing you hear “Cover of foo, graphic link” and then “foo” when you move to the next item which is the plain text link. Ideally you only want to hear one of those, the other is extraneous. (Discussed here)
Right now, it looks like the alt text is set to "" for the thumbnails, but according to Webaim.org :
When an image is the only content inside a link or button, alt text is all that a screen reader has to go on. If it’s empty or missing, screen readers might read the image filename or the URL of the linked page in hopes that this may be helpful to the user, but this is not always the case.
An IFDB user suggested combining the two links into one, which seems like a good idea.
From discussion at intfiction:
For the pages that have list of links, it does seem like combining adjacent cover art and title links into one link would
- follow recommended practice
- announce where the cover art link goes, which seems like something voters wanted (in this case, the title of the game is where the link goes)
- avoid redundancy in announcing two links that go to the same place
- avoid potential problems with screen readers trying to supply their own information about where the image link goes if we keep the image by itself with an empty alt attribute
On various pages, IFDB has lists of games where each game has a cover art thumbnail that links to the page for that game, and nearby, the game's title linking to the same place. This kind of thing can cause redundancy for screen readers:
Right now, it looks like the alt text is set to "" for the thumbnails, but according to Webaim.org :
An IFDB user suggested combining the two links into one, which seems like a good idea.
From discussion at intfiction: