Recently the question has come up how to place alt-text on the image displayed by news content pages in the Data Summary portlets. There is no property line for this image called: Alt-Text.
The ‘trick’ here is to remember that … Read the rest
In auditing hundreds of web pages over the past few weeks, I noticed several cases in which the email address includes an ‘extra’ prefix: ‘mailto:’. This can occur in any one of several ways.
When a page is being developed, if it is a new page, do not simply create the page and publish it without placing content on it. This results in a page that looks incomplete to visitors to the site.
After … Read the rest
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
This is a quick post specifically for school of a change being made to your sites (some sites are completed, but others will be completed next week).
Item 1: The district has added a second advertising line using a new … Read the rest
Today’s post is just a brief reminder that all links must have reasonable alt-text to help vision challenged visitors to our sites navigate with the existing links. It will discuss two basic types of links: Page/document links and Email links.… Read the rest
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
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
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
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
