Reminders
Digital Accessibility is Everyone’s Responsibility
The required digital accessibility assessment is for all WSU employees who create or publish digital content such as email, documents, multimedia, and websites. Also, they are responsible for ensuring it is accessible and provides an inclusive experience.
What We Are Working on
New @ web.wsu.edu
- Pre-launch Checklists: Updated the content by adding an accessibility check, revamping pre-launch and content check, and renaming pre-launch to website setup check.
Glitch List
- Page Banner (Beta) block: Beta included with the block title means use at your own risk. Instead of using the page Banner, use the Hero Banner without the text.
Submit a web support ticket to Report a Bug/Issue if you find a glitch.
Byte Size Tutorial
- Linking to a larger version of an image:
- Best practice would be to have the alt text describe the images as expected and in the caption add a link to the larger image, i.e., “View larger image.” This gives the information about a larger image to all people visiting the website.
- Bonus: You could add more information to the alt text about a larger version of the image linked in the caption.
- An alternative option would be to wrap the image in a link to the larger image. The alt text would be, “Select an image for a larger version of (then describe the image).” This is less than optimal because only some people will know the image is linked to a larger image. Other people will have to accidentally mouse over and notice the mouse icon change to a mouse, tab through the page, and see the focus on the image, or accidentally tap on the image while viewing on a touch screen.
- Best practice would be to have the alt text describe the images as expected and in the caption add a link to the larger image, i.e., “View larger image.” This gives the information about a larger image to all people visiting the website.
- List that doesn’t look like lists: Removing the bullet or icon that helps indicate a list item might not be the best for all users to know whether something is a list or not. Core Concept: Lists from Digital Accessibility
Resources
- Tools for checking links:
- Check My Link Chrome Add-on
- W3C Link Checker
- Screaming Frog
- Checking 404 pages:
- Track Missing Webpages (Page Not Found)
- Looker Studio: Page Not Found Template Report: Don’t forget to make a copy before you start editing.
- How screen readers read special characters: an update: Screen readers interpret what is on the screen. They can read most text easily and accurately, but how do they handle special punctuation and characters? Let’s find out!