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
Short Topics: Image and Link Alt-text
Image Alt-text
Image and link alt-text is extremely important to the visually impaired who cannot see either the picture or the link text (link text is what appears on the page). Often the alt-text is the only clue to these … Read the rest
Short Topics for School Home Pages
Footer Information
Every school has a footer banner across the bottom of every page. It includes the school’s physical address, main telephone number, fax number, and general email address. It also references the EEO statement found on the district’s legal … 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
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
Font Size: Points vs Pixels
For months, I have talked about color contrast issues. The basic rule is as follows:
In order to meet Level AA guidelines for color contrast under 1.4.3 of the WCAG, text to background color contrast must be 3:1 or greater … Read the rest
A Couple of Table Issues
In this post, we will look at a couple of table issues and the corresponding Monsido Issues that they may raise. First, you need to understand that there are essentially two types of tables possible, layout tables and data tables.… Read the rest
All IMG elements must have an ALT attribute
While it is true that images added to a web page using the Image Manager button in the content editor menu will not currently allow you to add an image to a content area without entering text into the Alt-Text … Read the rest
List items must not be used to format text
Monsido classifies this issue as a Warning. It occurs when you include only a single item in a list. The procedure to check this error is:
- Check each OL or UL element in the content page referenced
- Count the number
BLOCKQUOTE must not be used for indentation
For today’s look at ADA/Accessibility issues reported by Monsido, I have chosen an error that is simple to fix. This error occurs when users or applications attempt to use the BLOCKQUOTE tag to indent text. This is invalid. BLOCKQUOTE can … Read the rest