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Did you hear? A website should be accessible to everyone who comes to visit. Yeah, I’m sure you’ve heard that. But how do you know if you have an accessible site? There are all sorts of rules and checks involved in accessibility, but if you’re working with a WordPress blogger who just wants to do … Continue reading “How to Use the WAVE tool to Test and Boost Site Accessibility”
5 Expert Tips for Improving Your Navigation Menu is from Usabilla blog. Mike Montiero talks about measured responses online at The Pastry Box Project. He asks, “when your response is worse than the action that elicits it, then who’s the asshole?” Once and for All: Tech is Not a Meritocracy is from Curious For a … Continue reading “Useful links: Navigation, Measured responses, Meritocracy, PDF A11y,”
The Hidden Nuggets of WCAG 2: When Not to Use Alt Text. Excellent article. Would be a great resource to send students to read. Constructing a POUR Website is from WebAIM. Six CSS Layout Features to Look Forward To. This is material from a talk on how the CSS Working Group is attempting to solve … Continue reading “Useful links: Alt, POUR, Layout”
As I mentioned, I want to give the new WordPress Image Gallery a try. I gathered up some photos from the 2011 SXSW Interactive Conference to use as an experiment. The results? Easy to set up, easy to edit, easy to add titles and alt text. I don’t like that the thumbnails open in a … Continue reading “SXSW Image Gallery”
The slide deck, which is mostly a list of resources, can be found on Slideshare. I prepared some info for my part of the panel, which I put at vdebolt.com/swconf. This was just a small part of what we discussed, but since I was going to talk about alt text, I thought I needed some … Continue reading “SW Conference on Disability: Can the Dynamic Web be Accessible Panel Presentation Slides”
By Jill Whalen In my day-to-day reviews of client websites, I see lots of things done to websites in the name of SEO that in reality have no bearing on it. In an effort to keep you from spending your precious time on supposed SEO tactics that will have absolutely no effect on your rankings, … Continue reading “16 SEO Tactics That Will NOT Bring Targeted Google Visitors”
Five kinds of ‘alt’ text is from userfocus. HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives at the W3C is an Editor’s Draft. Even though this is a working draft and may change, it is one of the clearest and best written things I’ve seen at the W3C. The editor on this one is Steve Faulkner … Continue reading “Useful links: alt, alt, alt”