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
Quick ADA Hint: Tables Cannot Be Included as an Image
Tables with valuable information cannot be included as an image. They must be created as a table within the portal editor (there is too much information to be conveyed by simply including the text in the Alt-Text of the image. … 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
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
Quick Notes on Site Content and Accessibility Issues for March 28, 2019
As I have been going through many of the district and school sites, I have noticed several reoccurring problems.
Use External Link References Rather Than Duplicating Pages
I’ve seen several cases were the content for a page was duplicated exactly, … Read the rest
ADA Tips
Complying with all of the ADA issues can be difficult when you are first exposed to the many rules. Part of that is because there are many different aspects to accessibility and some rules may apply to specific areas while … Read the rest
How to Check Your PDF for Accessiblity?
There has been a great deal of concern about accessibility recently. Even Microsoft has focused on accessibility in many of their more recent application updates. However, how do you as an individual ensure your PDF documents are accessible without having … Read the rest
Creating Your Accessible PDF from Word
Now that you have a Word Document that is accessible, how can you create a PDF that you can distribute to others outside of OCPS.
Since the 2007 version of Word, you have had an option to change the file … Read the rest
Hyperlinks in Documents
As with links on a web page, links in a document must have alt-text. However, there is a major ‘gotcha’ which I’ll explain a little latter in this post. Let’s begin though by looking at what are some of the … Read the rest