{"id":2034,"date":"2013-09-18T09:21:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T13:21:31","slug":"images-web-tip-26-91813","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"Images, Web Tip #26, 9\/18\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Images<\/h2>\n<p><b>Difficulty:<\/b> Beginner<\/p>\n<p><b>Category:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Content<\/li>\n<li>Presentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/techniques\/images\/\">Images<\/a> can enhance accessibility. The expression &#8220;a picture is worth a thousand words&#8221; very much applies to accessibility as well. Complex concepts and content can be presented through images, illustrations, charts, graphs, etc. Icons can present complex functionality or information in a very small amount of space. As long as images are given <a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/techniques\/alttext\/\">appropriate alternative text<\/a> and are presented in accessible ways, they can greatly improve the functionality, understandability, and accessibility of a web page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2034\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images Difficulty: Beginner Category: Content Presentation Images can enhance accessibility. The expression &#8220;a picture is worth a thousand words&#8221; very much applies to accessibility as well. Complex concepts and content can be presented through images, illustrations, charts, graphs, etc. Icons can present complex functionality or information in a very small amount of space. As long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}