No alt tag on social icons

Ok, I’ll use a different plugin that does not accessibility guidelines.

Hi there,

Many thanks for reaching out and reporting this to us.

Currently, that option is not available. However, I would like to know more about what you have in mind regarding this feature and how the perfect illustration of this feature would look-alike in order for us to be able to take it into consideration within any upcoming update.

Also,

I do highly recommend you give our buttons a shot (which you can find over here: https://sharethis.com/platform/share-buttons/).

Not just because of their looks but, their incredible high responsiveness which is not just for end-users to enjoy but, publishers like you to have even drilled data on your pages’ activity so for decision making on what to change or improve to be easier by using our Social Analytics dashboard (which you can give a shot at https://sharethis.com/support/faq/social-analytics/.

Hope to hear back from you soon.

Your markup should be:

<img alt="Facebook" src="https://platform-cdn.sharethis.com/img/facebook.svg">
<img alt="Twitter" src="https://platform-cdn.sharethis.com/img/twitter.svg">
<img alt="Pinterest" src="https://platform-cdn.sharethis.com/img/pinterest.svg">

Your current markup doesn’t have the alt attribute on any of the <img> tags. This is a violation of web accessibility guidelines.

I have given your buttons a shot – I’ve been using them for years, in fact. But we are now running regular reports assessing our web sites’ accessibility, and your buttons generate 4 severity 10 violations on every single post on our site, adding up to more than 10,000 severe violations across our site. That makes us look Very Bad.

I’ve already switched to the Sassy Social Share plugin. If you ever fix this accessibility error, let me know and I’ll consider switching back.

Hi there,

Thank you for your reply!

I do apologize for all the inconvenience this may have caused on your end and would really like you to reach out back to me in case you want to give our services another try along with their new features which would be packed on our upcoming updates!

We appreciate your recommendations and suggestions, I will write this down so we can review it and certainly take it into consideration.

If there’s an update we will let you know.

Best,