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The HTML of the page doesn't contain "888". This makes it impossible for some disabled people to get the number at all.

This makes it a practical concern in addition to bad taste.

It's rather sad that none of the images (that I checked — I might be wrong) on blog.mozilla.org seem to have an alttext.

(For the record, while I generally dislike gifs, I don't have strong feelings, either way, regarding the animated image here.)

That is unfortunate. I'm not generally opposed to sensible use of images or (occasionally) gifs, but the practice of describing their contents in alttext is excellent - it enables both usability and machine-readability, and I really hope it catches on more widely.

And it flashes so fast, no human could actually call the number. It's very frustrating, even for able people!

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