How to find and fix hidden accessibility issues
So you’ve heard about the upcoming new accessibility requirements for US state and local government websites, and you’ve implemented an automated accessibility checker and fixed all the issues you found. You’re done, right?
Wrong! (But good job fixing all those errors. That’s huge.)
Automated accessibility checkers can find, at most, just half of all the possible accessibility errors that a website can have. They’re really useful for spotting common issues, such as color contrast problems and broken web forms. But there are some things that automated checkers can’t determine, and that’s where your clever human brain comes in.
Here are five simple but significant things to check when you’re creating or editing web content.
In a nutshell…
- Link text: Banish “click here”
- Headings: Make it easy to skim and navigate
- Page title: Does it match the content?
- Alt text: It better not say “IMG_3024.jpg”
- Icons: Are there accompanying labels?
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I pen occasional posts for LibTech Insights, a blog about technology in academic libraries from Choice, an ACRL/ALA publisher.