UniWiki:Manual of Style/Icons: Difference between revisions

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===Remember accessibility for the visually impaired===

Every functional icon should have [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Alternative text for images|alt text]], which is text describing the visual appearance of the image. Failure to provide this alt text will often make the icon meaningless or confusing to those using [[Wikipedia:Screen reader|screen readers]] or text-only browsers. To provide alt text, simply add the description to the end of the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax|image markup]]: for example, "<code><nowiki>[[File:Skill.png|22px|Skills]]</nowiki></code>" generates an icon [[File:Skill.png|22px|Skills]] that has alt text "Skills".

~~==Logos==~~

~~{{Redirect|WP:MOSLOGO|the Wikipedia guidelines on logo usage|Wikipedia:Logo}}~~

~~{{shortcut|WP:MOSLOGO|MOS:LOGO}}~~

The insertion of [[logo]]s as icons into articles is strongly discouraged: While illustration of a logo may be appropriate at the main article on the topic to which the logo pertains, use of logos as icons is not useful to our readers, and often presents legal problems.

~~===Non-free images===~~

Use of company logos, sports team crests, and other images protected as intellectual property (including as [[Wikipedia:Copyright|copyright]]s, [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks|trademark]]s, and [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks|service mark]]s) in articles can only be done on a [[Wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]] basis. Use of such images is nearly always prohibited (''for more information, see [[Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline]] and [[Wikipedia:Logos]])''.

~~===Free images===~~

While legal problems may not be present (no [[intellectual property]] right being claimable), all of this guideline's rationales against use of icons as decoration still apply. Generally, addition of logos to article prose or tabular data does not improve the encyclopedia and leads to confusing visual clutter.

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 ===Remember accessibility for the visually impaired===
 Every functional icon should have [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Alternative text for images|alt text]], which is text describing the visual appearance of the image. Failure to provide this alt text will often make the icon meaningless or confusing to those using [[Wikipedia:Screen reader|screen readers]] or text-only browsers. To provide alt text, simply add the description to the end of the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax|image markup]]: for example, "<code><nowiki>[[File:Skill.png|22px|Skills]]</nowiki></code>" generates an icon [[File:Skill.png|22px|Skills]] that has alt text "Skills".
-==Logos==
-{{Redirect|WP:MOSLOGO|the Wikipedia guidelines on logo usage|Wikipedia:Logo}}
-{{shortcut|WP:MOSLOGO|MOS:LOGO}}
-The insertion of [[logo]]s as icons into articles is strongly discouraged: While illustration of a logo may be appropriate at the main article on the topic to which the logo pertains, use of logos as icons is not useful to our readers, and often presents legal problems.
-===Non-free images===
-Use of company logos, sports team crests, and other images protected as intellectual property (including as [[Wikipedia:Copyright|copyright]]s, [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks|trademark]]s, and [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks|service mark]]s) in articles can only be done on a [[Wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]] basis. Use of such images is nearly always prohibited (''for more information, see  [[Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline]] and [[Wikipedia:Logos]])''.
-===Free images===
-While legal problems may not be present (no [[intellectual property]] right being claimable), all of this guideline's rationales against use of icons as decoration still apply. Generally, addition of logos to article prose or tabular data does not improve the encyclopedia and leads to confusing visual clutter.