One of the more common compliance issues with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) is also one of the easiest to fix. Color contrast in relation to the text on the background requires that the text be easy to read by … Read the rest
Shorts – Decorative Images, Text Images, and Color Contrast
Decorative Images
I want to visit images again to review a couple of common issues I have seen on sites. These issues are easy to recognize if one simply ties to adopt the mindset of a blind or vision impaired … Read the rest
Shorts – Themes, CC, AD, and more
Page Themes:
While SchoolMessenger includes any page themes in the Presence product that could be used for individual pages, we should not use any of these themes other than the default themes created for the OCPS websites. Why? Here are … Read the rest
Use of Colors and Icons on Calendars
I’ve noticed two trends which school web editors should address as soon as possible. I will cover one this time and one next time. Today I would like to look at the use of colors on calendars.
However, before we … Read the rest
Alt text on Images – Significant Text
Many images on the portal include text. Often the text portion of the image is more important to the person visiting the site than the image is. Such is the case of the following image.
I chose this image because … Read the rest
Account for Motion Disabilities
I have seen many pages on our portal with a list of links that appear on one line after another like those shown in the following image.
While single spacing a list is acceptable for a list that simply displays … Read the rest
Can Alt-Text Have Line Breaks
Well, that depends. It depends on where you try to create them.
Let’s start with a word document. If you have a word document that contains an image, you can right-click on the image and select the “Edit Alt Text…” … Read the rest
White on Orange is not ADA Compliant
The Issue
One issue that seems to be repeated across many pages of the Internet, intranet, and even school sites is the use of white text on a background of orange as shown in the image below. However, even though … Read the rest
Tale of the alt, title and longdesc Attributes
Most of you probably know that the alt attribute found in the <img> tag is used by screen readers to assist the visually impaired and blind. What is alt text in the first place? It is the text that appears … Read the rest
Style and Image Sizing
If image sizing for web pages seems to be an area that confuses you, this blog post is for you.
Automatically Optimize Image Sizes (Excerpted from the SchoolMessenger built-in help about image resizing.)
Many images that you wish to use … Read the rest