This time I want to talk a little about Suspicious Link Text. Monsido flags Suspicious links within the Accessibility section of the site report. In fact, suspicious links are considered to be a Level A requirement which means fixing them … Read the rest
Color Contrast in the Calendar
While I truly understand the desire to use different colors for event titles in your calendar, you should only do so with full concern about ADA Color Contrast issues. Color Contrast is a mathematical interpretation of the degree of contrast … Read the rest
Alt Text for Images with Text
Background
If you use an image that contains text that you want site visitors to read, that text must be included elsewhere on the page so that screen readers can read the text for the visually impaired and blind. In … Read the rest
Alt Text for Functional Images
AIn this post, I’ll take a look at how to use alt text for functional images. But first, what is a functional image and how does it differ from an informative image previously discussed.
Essentially the difference is that a … Read the rest
Alt Text for Decorative Images
What is a decorative image when applied to a webpage? It is any image that does not add information to the content of the page. It could be part of the page design such as a border around the page, … Read the rest
Alt-Text for Informative Images
What is an informative image when applied to a webpage? It is any image that adds materially to the understanding of the other text on the page. The alt-text, in this case, should be short, no more than a sentence, … Read the rest
The Alt Text Series
This post begins a series of posts on how to use the alt attribute with images in a variety of different scenarios. Not all images on a web page are the same. The purpose of the image on a webpage … Read the rest
Style and Consistency – Part 1 – Links
Style and consistency on your web pages are very important issues when publishing your finished web page. I am going to take a portion of a web page and highlight some of the things you need to review before publishing … Read the rest
News Content Pages and the Advance Data Display Portlet
If you are using the Advanced Data Display portlet either on a standalone page or as part of a News Content page, you may have added a Featured Image to Page Content area. If you did, you still need to … Read the rest
MetaData is Too Short or Too Long
First, what is metadata? The quick definition is that metadata is data about data. When talking about web pages, this specifically refers to the ‘Summary’ or ‘Description’ of the web page. The purpose of metadata is to help search engines … Read the rest