Providing alternative text (alt text) for images is necessary to pass success criterion 1.1.1: Non-text content. On many of the websites I evaluate, it’s very common for alt text to be incomplete, incorrectly applied or missing entirely. When performing accessibility testing, I find it helpful to use a tool like this image bookmarklet to highlight … Continue reading “Creating useful alternative text for your images”
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Accessibility review of the We Are Blood online questionnaire
I’m a regular blood donor with our local blood bank, We Are Blood. If you’ve ever donated blood, you know that part of the process is answering a bunch of health-related questions first to help determine your eligibility. Being sick, taking certain medications or having had certain illnesses can exclude you from donating. I’m donating … Continue reading “Accessibility review of the We Are Blood online questionnaire”
How to give your Yammer image uploads alternative text descriptions
At work, we use Microsoft’s social media tool Yammer. It wasn’t clear to me how to give alt text to uploaded images, so I searched through the Yammer support documentation and found a page on accessibility in Yammer. But neither that page nor a supplemental page on using a screen reader with Yammer mentions alt … Continue reading “How to give your Yammer image uploads alternative text descriptions”
Web accessibility for content authors
This week, I gave a presentation about web accessibility to the content authors of our corporate marketing website who combine text, images, video, etc. into web pages using a content management system (CMS). I’ve found it challenging to tailor web accessibility information for different audiences (developers versus content authors) including how to break it into … Continue reading “Web accessibility for content authors”
YNAB addresses color accessibility
In a recent product update YNAB (You Need a Budget) announced it had made some change to the way it uses color to convey meaning about budget amounts. When I logged into the online webapp today, I saw this modal message dialog. (The content of the announcement is below the image.) Sarah from YNAB Hi … Continue reading “YNAB addresses color accessibility”