When designing content for the web, use actual text in your design, whether creating an email, a table of contents, a call out box, or other type of marketing content.
What barriers does an image of text create?
- An image of text can often not be resized with zoom/magnification tools.
- An image of text for can be hard to convey through alt text, especially a table screenshot, which can be impossible to describe through alt text.
- The text in the image becomes unsearchable and cannot be translated into other languages.
- If someone has images disabled due to low bandwidth or sensory issues, they lose the visual means in which the content was conveyed.
- Prevents any user from copy pasting that content for personal notes or other purposes.