One of the more common compliance issues with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) is also one of the easiest to fix. Color contrast in relation to the text on the background requires that the text be easy to read by … Read the rest
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
News Content Pages and the Advance Data Display Portlet
If you are using the Advanced Data Display portlet either on a standalone page or as part of a News Content page, you may have added a Featured Image to Page Content area. If you did, you still need to … Read the rest
MetaData is Too Short or Too Long
First, what is metadata? The quick definition is that metadata is data about data. When talking about web pages, this specifically refers to the ‘Summary’ or ‘Description’ of the web page. The purpose of metadata is to help search engines … Read the rest
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
All IMG elements must have an ALT attribute
While it is true that images added to a web page using the Image Manager button in the content editor menu will not currently allow you to add an image to a content area without entering text into the Alt-Text … Read the rest
List items must not be used to format text
Monsido classifies this issue as a Warning. It occurs when you include only a single item in a list. The procedure to check this error is:
- Check each OL or UL element in the content page referenced
- Count the number
BLOCKQUOTE must not be used for indentation
For today’s look at ADA/Accessibility issues reported by Monsido, I have chosen an error that is simple to fix. This error occurs when users or applications attempt to use the BLOCKQUOTE tag to indent text. This is invalid. BLOCKQUOTE can … Read the rest
Image Alt Text is Short
This ADA issue is one of the Level AA issues you might encounter in your Monsido reports, that can be extremely confusing at first. What does it mean? Does it mean that the alt-text is short and needs to be … 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