Many images on the portal include text. Often the text portion of the image is more important to the person visiting the site than the image is. Such is the case of the following image.
I chose this image because … Read the rest
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.
While single spacing a list is acceptable for a list that simply displays … Read the rest
Can Alt-Text Have Line Breaks
Well, that depends. It depends on where you try to create them.
Let’s start with a word document. If you have a word document that contains an image, you can right-click on the image and select the “Edit Alt Text…” … Read the rest
White on Orange is not ADA Compliant
The Issue
One issue that seems to be repeated across many pages of the Internet, intranet, and even school sites is the use of white text on a background of orange as shown in the image below. However, even though … Read the rest
Tale of the alt, title and longdesc Attributes
Most of you probably know that the alt attribute found in the <img> tag is used by screen readers to assist the visually impaired and blind. What is alt text in the first place? It is the text that appears … Read the rest
More Style Guidelines for your website
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Do not publish blank pages
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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,
Message from SchoolMessenger on Distance Learning
Solutions for Remote Learning Needs Webinar
Available On Demand
Attendees of the live event were very appreciative of the timely and helpful webinar.
If your school or district is considering remote learning, view the on-demand webinar and learn which of … Read the rest
Message from SchoolMessenger
During this time of uncertainty, Intrado SchoolMessenger is here to help. From giving schools and districts the ability to rapidly communicate with constituents to offering solutions to newly evolving challenges like remote learning, we are your partner through it all.… Read the rest
Style and Image Sizing
If image sizing for web pages seems to be an area that confuses you, this blog post is for you.
Automatically Optimize Image Sizes (Excerpted from the SchoolMessenger built-in help about image resizing.)
Many images that you wish to use … Read the rest
Style and Suspicious Links
This time I want to talk a little about Suspicious Link Text. Monsido flags Suspicious links within the Accessibility section of the site report. In fact, suspicious links are considered to be a Level A requirement which means fixing them … Read the rest