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In the last few months I’ve been doing a lot of research on how blind users use webpages using screenreaders, including spending a lot of time blindfolded and using these for myself. I discovered a few things, and found that a lot of what I thought was true, were actually myths. Read more
The organisation responsible for policing the UK cookie law has just announced that they will stop asking users for permission to set cookies on their own website. In other words:
Do you add a descriptive title attribute to your links? If so did you know that you might be making your site even less accessible? Recently everything I thought I knew about the title attribute was proved false when I started using a screenreader.
When WordPress added the input for adding a title to all links I was pleased. Finally, I thought, here’s a way that I can add more descriptive text about the destination of the link that will be read aloud in screenreaders. But I was wrong. Read more
I’m a full visually-able user and I love looking at websites. I know though, that not everyone experiences websites in the same way. Browsing websites at different screen sizes is a hot topic at the moment, but lets not forget that it’s not just mobile users that experience websites differently, blind users experience them in a way you might not even realise.
So I started using a screen reader to see (I suppose I should say “experience”) how a blind user navigates a website. Read more
I bet you’re bored to death of hearing about the alt tag, and how important and magical it is. I bet you think you know everything there is to know about it right? Good!
So when I put this picture on Facebook last week and asked our followers to answer a simple question about the appropriate alt text, why did so many get the answer wrong?
Here’s a little quiz for you guys. This image is on a website for purely presentational reasons. Which of these is the most appropriate alt text? Read more