Is Your Blog Accessible?
How accessible is your blog (or website for that matter)?
Today’s post in the Accessibility 100 series at Glenda Watson Hyatt’s Do It Myself Blog covers 5 Ways to Increase the Accessibility of Blogs.
We have covered some of the points Glenda brings up here at Web Page Mistakes before:
- Effective Colour Contrast – Not only an accessibility issue, but also a usability issue.
- Image Alt Attribute a.k.a incorrectly, as the image alt tag.
Other accessibility issues (which are also usability and SEO – search engine optimization issues) we have covered here at Web Page Mistakes are:
- Using Javascript on Websites – not only an accessibility issue but also a usability and SEO (search engine optimization issue).
- Disabling the right click – not everyone is trying to steal your images.
- Opening the Lines of Communication – How the internet has opened the lines of communication for those with disabilities.
- Heading Structure – Heading Tags – how proper heading structure not only helps those using screen readers but also all of your visitors and the search engine bots.
- Does Your Website Have to be Accessible? – benefits of making your website and blog accessible, beyond any legal obligations you have to incorporate accessibility into your website/blog.
As you read through each of the articles above, you will come to find that making a website or blog accessible is not that hard and adds the benefits of being more user and search engine friendly.
Related Reading
“…Numbers don’t lie: According to the American Foundation for the Blind and Statistics Canada, there are 12.8 million blind and print-restricted Americans and 2.8 million similarly disabled Canadians. And with an aging population, expect that number to rise.
The disabled love to surf: Almost half the disabled in North America maintain their independence by using the web. In fact, they spend more time logged on than most nondisabled users….
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July 17th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
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