Alt Text for Beginners
The one thing I can confidently say about my understanding of web accessibility is that I am a beginner. Though I’ve been managing content in the field of digital accessibility for a few years now and have attended some webinars and digital conferences on the subject, I still feel like the person “in the room” who knows the least. Before I worked for WebABLE News, if you had asked me what web accessibility was, I would have only had a vague notion, and it would have been incomplete, if not downright incorrect. Whenever friends ask me about my work, their eyes sort of glaze over when I try to describe this field or they will outright ask, “what is web accessibility?” It seems to be a case of “you don’t know what you don’t know”. However, once the major concepts and best practices of web accessibility are grasped, it is…