Decorative Images Difficulty: Advanced Category: Content Presentation In some cases images are used to convey a mood, feeling, or non-literal content – something to make the page more friendly, personable, or visually pleasing. It is often difficult to convey meaningful alternative text for such images in a way that is useful for someone that cannot […]
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Linked Images Difficulty: Advanced Category: Content Presentation When an image is the only thing contained within a link, that image must be given appropriate alternative text. Because the image provides a function, a screen reader encountering the image must convey some information to the user. If alternative text has not been provided for the image, […]
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Contrast Difficulty: Beginner Category: Presentation Determining whether there is enough color contrast between text and background can be difficult. WCAG 2.0 has contrast guidelines at both level AA and level AAA and a complex formula for determining a contrast ratio. Large text (over 14 point bold) requires slightly less contrast than ‘normal’ text. There are […]
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Alternative Versions Difficulty: Beginner Category: Principles Building one version of a site that is highly accessible is the best approach to accessibility. Providing alternative versions or directing users to accessible or mobile versions of a site can be interpreted a segregation and separation, particularly if the content and functionality is not similar or equivalent to […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP There is a great new Website–http://baltimorecode.org/. It’s all of the city’s codes and statutes laid out and available for anyone. It’s true that all of this information had been available previously. But often it required sifting through monolithic PDF files. Baltimorecode.org and it’s companion site marylandcode.org are […]
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Animation Difficulty: Beginner Category: Presentation Animation or other moving elements on a web page can be distracting to all users. Even simple animation can render a web page completely inaccessible to users with certain cognitive disabilities or high levels of distractibility. Animation should generally be avoided. Brief animations (ones that completely stop in less than […]
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