Epsilis Web Design
T: 01279 295546
E: joseph@epsilis.co.uk
Epsilis Web Design
T: 01279 295546
E: joseph@epsilis.co.uk
Web Accessibility is about giving equal access to the information and functionality of your website to all regardless of their abilities and disabilities.
So what do I mean by Poster Images? Basically any image containing lots of text. Think about typical social media images, infographics, posters, wordclouds… For example, an image advertising an event So an image where all the information required such…
PDF or HTML? Normal HTML content on your web pages is nearly always better than a PDF. PDFs are for print or downloads and not as a substitute for HTML web content.
Here is why you should not use just "Click Here" as link text in your web page content: Links should have descriptive content to help everyone understand what comes next when they follow your link.
Images help understanding, break up the text and make it easier for the reader. All excellent reasons for using images BUT they slow websites down and page download speed matters. Understanding how to use images properly will stop you ruining your website with common image mistakes.
If you are updating the content yourself on your website here is a list of common mistakes to avoid that I come across regularly. Making any of these mistakes will hurt your website.
This article is a guide to content editing such as any site owner might do in wordpress so as not to break web accessibility guidelines
Alt Text is a short alternative text description of an image on a web page. It is used when the image itself cannot be seen and understood. It is useful to search engines and people with sight issues (or for everybody if the image does not load for some reason).
Web sites must make "reasonable adjustments" to the way in which they work to enable the disabled to use them. For example - providing text alternatives to non text content.