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Making your website and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.

While alt text end punctuation isn’t technically required for compliance, it makes for a better experience for your audience.

Tipps für Online-Redakteurinnen und -Redakteure, Best Practice: So könnte der "perfekte Alt-Text" laute, Alt-Texte: die wichtigsten Punkte

Manchmal beeinflusst der Code die Wahl der richtigen Textalternative. Es werden vier gleich aussehende Teaser vorgestellt und die Textalternative für die Teaser-Grafik besprochen.

Describing images with the alt attribute and figcaption element.

The most accessible format for any content on the web is plain text. Plain text is incredibly malleable, it can be altered in ways to cater to almost any disability. For users with no visual difficulties, they can simply read the text. If a user has visual impairments, the text

For assistive technology, such as screen readers, magnifiers, speech recognition, braille devices, etc, the name of an object, or more specifically, the "accessible name" of an object, is extremely important.

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It often happens that designers and web developers agree on the fact that they do not like the standard buttons or the styling capabilities of buttons in browsers. To work around this, they then resort to what’s called clickable text. It is in many cases a simple span

We look at some of the things you have to think about when creating content to work well with screen readers.

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In order for a screen reader to present a spoken UI to the user, meaningful elements must have proper labels or text alternatives. A label or text alternative gives an element its accessible name, one of the key properties for expressing element semantics in the accessibility tree.

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When it comes to creating accessible products, understanding the interactions between different technologies and the code we write is very helpful. In this post, Joe Watkins talks about accessible name--what it is, how to apply it, and why it's such an integral tool in the accessibility toolkit.

Do you add a descriptive title attribute to your links? Did you know that you might be making your site even less accessible?

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David MacDonald, CanAdapt offers WCAG Training, What happens when aria-label, aria-labelledby and aria-describedby are on static HTML elements? For accessbility, testing, teaching, and discussion, WCAG accessibility audits and accommodation of employees with disabilities.

if voiceover does it is another matter. just pointing out that it's not "almost any type" on all situations. or you need to qualify your statement as "in VoiceOver..." ;)— patrick h. lauke #toryScum (@patrick_h_lauke) September 16, 2018

This document is a practical guide for developers on how to add accessibility information to HTML elements using the Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification [WAI-ARIA-1.1], which defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. This document demonstrates how to use WAI-ARIA in [HTML51], which especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.

The aria-label attribute is used to define a string that labels the current element. Use it in cases where a text label is not visible on the screen. If there is visible text labeling the element, use aria-labelledby instead.

Link text replaced by `aria-label` attribute - results of screen reader compatibility testing in JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver.

Knowbility is a nonprofit organization with the goal of improving technology access for millions of youth and adults with disabilities all over the world.

Knowbility is a nonprofit organization with the goal of improving technology access for millions of youth and adults with disabilities all over the world.