a11y stands for ACCESSIBILITY

Alternate text, also called alt tags and alt descriptions, describes images to visually impaired users. Without alternative text, the content of an image will not be available to screen reader users. Each image that conveys meaning or is used as link content must include alternate text unless including the alternate text would create redundancy (e.g. Read More »

A very common accessibility problem is the lack of properly formatted Heading tags in a webpage (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 or H6). Sometimes headings are not present or they may be incorrectly nested (ie… H2 before H1, H3 before H2 etc…). Headings communicate the organization of the content on the page and can be Read More »

The W3C provides detailed instructions for creating accessible menus which we have summarized below along with providing some code examples for improving the accessibility of your menus: Verify that the menu is marked up using list markup (ul and li). If a link to the current page is included in the menu, ensure that it Read More »

Animated gifs that repeat non-stop or more than 3 times in one second should be avoided. To ensure compliance, animated images should stop after 5 seconds or users should be given a way to pause. They must also include alt text and if they contain blinking or flashing they should not flash more than 3 Read More »

HTML button accessibility is a common problem on websites. Keyboard users routinely use the spacebar and the enter key to activate an html button control. When it doesn’t work, blind users can quickly become disoriented. Luckily this problem can be easily resolved by placing a simple JS script file on your website. It does require Read More »