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
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
Dates and Spelling Within Documents and Titles Do Matter
When you include a date in a document such as the school supply list shown below and that date is for a past year, there is always doubt as to whether that document still applies because nothing has changed or … Read the rest
Adding ToolTips to Email Hyperlinks
One of the requirements for accessibility is that hyperlinks have tooltip text that appears when the user either hovers over the link text or is read to the user if a screen reader is being used. However, when that hyperlink … 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
Adding Email Links on a Web Page
Most webpage editors know how to add a basic email link on their website. But let’s start with an example content line that says the following:
If you have any questions concerning any of the OCPS guidelines, please address them … Read the rest
SchoolMessenger Makes It Easy to Build ADA Compliant and Responsive Tables
In this post, I am going to examine several issues related to using tables on your SchoolMessenger web pages. First some Do’s and Don’ts.
Do’s
- Use tables to display numeric or alphanumeric data
- Provide a table title or caption to
How Does It Look on a Mobile Device?
In the past, we have run Google Analytics which told us that the majority of the web sessions on the OCPS portal were coming from desktop computers. In fact the number was as high as 95% in recent months. However, … Read the rest