MakeMineATriple

Last Thursday I went up to Edinburgh for the first Highland Fling conference, on progressive enhancement. Firstly, a big thanks to Alan White for organising the conference, and of course to all the speakers.

Imagine having the words “click here” read out to you for every single linkThis one’s pretty simple actually, so there’s not much to say about good practice with link text. However, I do keep seeing it being done wrong, so here’s an outline of the key things to consider. The first thing to remember is that the link text should “identify the target of each link”. In other words, don’t use text like “click here”.

Here’s part one of three in follow-up to the Oxford Geek Night, to elaborate on the points I made about image alt text. A quick recap (or introduction, if you weren’t there or haven’t seen my slides!): An image’s alt text is presented to a user if their “user agent’ (the thing they’re using to browse web pages) does not display the image. e.g.

• A text browser is being used
• The user is blind and a screen reader...

Two nights ago was the first Oxford Geek Night. This was basically a chance for web developers and designers to get together in a mixed business and social context.Two nights ago was the first Oxford Geek Night. This was basically a chance for web developers and designers to get together in a mixed business and social context. I did one of the “microslots” - a five minute talk on “Avoiding accessibility pitfalls”.