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Posted on December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

Shorts – Decorative Images, Text Images, and Color Contrast

A bear driving a school bus of third graders?

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

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Posted on December 7, 2020November 27, 2020

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

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Posted on November 30, 2020November 27, 2020

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

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Posted on October 23, 2020October 23, 2020

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.

A list with sequental hyperlines that are single spaced

While single spacing a list is acceptable for a list that simply displays … Read the rest

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Posted on April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

More Style Guidelines for your website

  1. Do not publish blank pages

  2. If your drop down menu is already getting too long, don’t include two separate entries for items like Code of Conduct that go directly to either the English or Spanish versions as shown below:

    Rather,

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Posted on March 6, 2020March 9, 2020

The Style of Links

In today’s post, I want to talk a little about style when creating links on a web page. More specifically, I want to talk about how style changes based on the type of medium used to display the link. For … Read the rest

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Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019

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

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Posted on October 23, 2019October 23, 2019

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

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Posted on September 2, 2019September 2, 2019

Writing Tips for the Portal

So, I’m just sitting here waiting for Dorian to arrive. I’ve moved all my patio furniture inside along with the plants and other objects the wind could pick up. So, I wondered, “What is there now to do but wait?” … Read the rest

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Posted on August 30, 2019August 30, 2019

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

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