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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
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
What is a decorative image when applied to a webpage? It is any image that does not add information to the content of the page. It could be part of the page design such as a border around the page, … Read the rest
What is an informative image when applied to a webpage? It is any image that adds materially to the understanding of the other text on the page. The alt-text, in this case, should be short, no more than a sentence, … Read the rest
This post begins a series of posts on how to use the alt attribute with images in a variety of different scenarios. Not all images on a web page are the same. The purpose of the image on a webpage … Read the rest
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
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
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
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
If you have a simple page, you may not think of page structure … Read the rest
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