accessibility

I’ve been having a lot of fun with jQuery recently. One of the things particularly easy to do with it is write nice and unobtrusive javascript (a good start when looking at progressive enhancement). This is largely down to the fact that it’s very easy to find particular elements within the DOM - with any level of specificity - and attach behaviour to them. On the site I’ve been building at work, one particular example was to get jQuery to write in the “...

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...