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
Title Found On More Than One Page
In this post, I am going to look at one of the common SEO (Search Engine Optimization) errors, ‘Title found on more than one page’. What this error means is that there are two or more pages with the same … Read the rest
Hyperlinks with Images Rather than Link Text
A common occurrence is to have a hyperlink that uses an image rather than Link Text. In these situations, the alt text for the image and link must appear in the <img> tag’s ‘alt’ attribute. There are many cases where … Read the rest
20 Things That Are Not Cool!
I am not talking about the fact that it is summertime in Florida or how you feel when you lose electricity due to a storm and your air conditioning does not work. No, I am talking about the OCPS websites … Read the rest
A Quick Web Accessibility Checklist for our Content Editors
While the following is not a complete list of DOs and DONTs, it is a quick list adapted from a SiteImprove document on Web Accessibility
Page Structure
If you have a simple page, you may not think of page structure … Read the rest
Year End Web Site Review
The 2019-2020 school year is essentially over. Now is a good time to review your school or department web site. Did it do everything you hoped it would? If not what could you do different to change that? Are you … Read the rest
ADA and Tables
A few quick guide to ADA requirements for tables:
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Every table must have a caption (title). In HTML, it looks like this:
<table Border=”0″><caption>Cups of coffee consumed by each teacher per week</caption>
This is not the same as text that … Read the rest
Monsido Accessibility Level AA Errors with Links
Last time, I looked at the Level A accessibility errors related to links. This time, I am moving up to the Level AA link issues. To be compliant at the AA level of WCAG, you must first be compliant at … Read the rest
Tackling Accessibility Errors with Monsido – Part 1
The new Monsido Accessibility reports break down errors into three major categories:
- Quality Assurance – Includes broken links and misspellings.
- Accessibility – These are the common ADA issues.
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – These issues affect the overall performance of
OCPS Web Site Down Time on April 15th
The following is what SchoolMessenger reported as the reason for the downtime that lasted most of the day on April 15th. (It was not so they could finish filing their income tax. They are in Canada, not the … Read the rest