{"id":6202,"date":"2015-06-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2015-06-15T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T17:48:22","slug":"blogging-tools-accessibility-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6202","title":{"rendered":"Blogging tools – accessibility edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Eye Can See the World” by cam morris https:\/\/openclipart.org\/detail\/65845\/eye-can-see-the-world<\/p><\/div>\n

Interesting – check.
\nTimely – yes.
\nUnderstandable to everyone – maybe?<\/p>\n

As a blogger or website owner, whether you just dash off a quick daily note or craft a series of longer posts, do you ever think about<\/p>\n

…readers with visual impairments being able “see” your images?<\/p>\n

…people with color-blindness easily navigating your blog?<\/p>\n

To help you reduce potential barriers for your readership, check out some free assessment tools and adopt simple practices for your blog.<\/p>\n

For every image, photo, or video on your page, include an alt-text <\/a>description. This allows screen readers to say aloud what it is. For instance, I use book covers from publishers in almost every BooksYALove post, so I always include alt-text like “book cover of Cool Book by Great Author published by Fancy Publisher” – which also gets picked up by search engines.<\/p>\n

Be sure to bookmark and refer to the checklists<\/a> on the Website Accessibility Project’s site so that you can institute the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines recommended changes one at a time (and monitor how they affect your site for viewers). The very first one is providing text descriptions for non-text elements.<\/p>\n

Read a brief background on color-blindness and web design here<\/a>, then use some of the free online tools listed by Sitepoint here<\/a> to check your site. Good color contrast when a website is greyscaled also helps older readers better distinguish things there.<\/p>\n

Free and easy ways to help more people read what you’ve worked so hard to write!
\nWhat accessibility tips do you recommend?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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