Simply ensuring your website is accessible to screen reader users is unfortunately not enough to ensure these users can find what they’re looking for in a reasonably quick and efficient manner. Even if your site is accessible to screen reader users, its usability could be so incredibly poor that they needn’t have bothered coming to [...]
You know exactly what your organisation does and what your website offers its users. This information has probably become second nature to you, but first-time visitors to your site won’t know this. As such, make sure you don’t forget to tell them what you do. As soon as new site visitors arrive at your website [...]
Anyone who knows anything about web accessibility knows that images need alternative, or ALT, text assigned to them. This is because screen readers can’t understand images, but rather read aloud the alternative text assigned to them. In Internet Explorer we can see this ALT text, simply by mousing over the image and looking at the [...]
An additional benefit of website accessibility is an improved performance in search engines. The more accessible it is to search engines, the more accurately they can predict what the site’s about, and the higher your site will appear in the rankings. Not all of the accessibility guidelines will help with your search engine rankings, but [...]
You may not bother with html validation or writing simple and clean code when designing your web site. Later you may find your site is slow loading, appears incorrectly in the main browsers and does not rank well for the major search engines. Now there are sites that still do rank well even though the [...]
A quick search on Google for advice on creating a site map initially threw up many links to software you could buy or download for free to create a site map. But why do you need a site map? Basically as websites get larger and more complex both the human browser and the search engine [...]
Having a top-notch real estate website can help you stay competitive in today’s Web-driven economy. But before you leap in and make a large purchase, you need to be aware of certain things — namely, the various drawbacks of template websites. About Website Templates A template is a pre-built website “shell” that you buy (or [...]
Automated website accessibility testing can be a very useful process. It often reveals many issues which would take a human tester many times longer to uncover. Its a bit like using a spell / grammar checker on a long article. But, just as a human editor is essential in any serious writing, hands on testing [...]
Semantic HTML means using HTML tags for their implied meaning, rather than just using (meaningless) div and span tags for absolutely everything. Why would you want to do this? Depending on the tag, the content in the tag can be interpreted in a certain way. Here are some examples. Header tags If you use instead [...]
An additional benefit of website accessibility is an improved performance in search engines. The more accessible it is to search engines, the more accurately they can predict what the site’s about, and the higher your site will appear in the rankings. Not all of the accessibility guidelines will help with your search engine rankings, but [...]
