Web Accessibility Gone Wild
Web Accessibility Gone Wild presents a wide variety of mistakes, misconceptions, over-indulgences, intricacies, and generally silly aspects of modern accessibility.
Comments
August 31, 2008
Hi
You say about alt tags for decorative images that are not “hidden” by CSS – “and most often, this means alt=”” for these types of images”. In a perfect world I would agree, but unfortunately so many webdesigners forget to add alt tags to important images that when I come across alt=”” I am not sure if that is because the image is not important or the designer has forgotten. I would much rather hear “alt equals photo of my cat” than “alt equals blank”. At least I then know that I am not missing out.
Richard
September 1, 2008
Great article Jared. I wasn’t aware of the issue with “forms mode” and screen readers possibly not reading content.
On fixing screen reader deficiencies, you may be able to use aural style sheets such as the ‘speak-punctuation’ element to help with some of these issues. See Web Axe podcast #58 for more on this. [...]