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To Alt Tag or To Not Alt Tag, That is the Question

By on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:50:00 -0800

For those of you unfamiliar with alt tags, alternative tags are added to the code that places an image on the web page. They are used to describe the image to someone who is blind and uses screen reader software to read the web page to them. They can also be used to add key words for search engine optimization. They don’t show on the page unless the image is not there for some reason, for example, an email before the recipient chooses to download the images. Adding alternative tags to images is a very basic and one of the easiest ways to improve accessibility to your site, but just what those alt tags should say is one of the more complicated things. I have been reading the accessibility guidelines that are spelled out on the webaim.org even that information is conflicted.
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“Read More” and “Click Here” Links are not the Friends of Accessibility

By on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:28:00 -0800

Recently I was able to see how a blind person uses JAWS the most popular screen reader. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this technology, screen readers are software that read the content of a web page to the user. A person could use it to read the page from top to bottom and identify any links in the content as it goes. However, this is clunky and slow. Imagine how frustrating it would be to not be able to scan a page to look for the links you want, but to have to go through the content piece by piece, in order, from top to bottom
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Design Review: SuperKmart.com

By Dan Collins on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:06:00 -0700

With the hustle and bustle of our move last December, along with the holidays, we had no time to bake a cake for my boy's birthday. Fortunately, the Super K that's right down the street has a bakery inside. My wife went online and discovered that you can order the cakes through their website.
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Intranets That Communicate, Collaborate and Innovate

By Barb Cagley on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:52:00 -0800

Recently I was sitting in a room of people trying to decide what information they wanted to put on their company intranet site. This was a group of managers who were nominated to form the intranet committee. Sitting in a closed door room they were reviewing item by item of what they thought their teams would find useful. They were practical, intelligent people yet not once did anyone say lets go back to the team and learn what information they need easy access to.
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