How to Make a Website Handicap Accessible
Go to your favorite website and try to navigate it with your eyes closed or without using your mouse, and you'll have a sense of the difficulties facing people with accessibility issues. These are the basic tests for a website's accessibility. Making a website handicap accessible is easy as long as you keep the following steps in mind.
Other People Are Reading
Instructions
-
-
1
Write out all important text, rather than (or in addition to) using scripts, applets, plug-ins or images.
-
2
Include alternative text for all images, scripts, applets and plug-ins. Use an "alt attribute" to make a message visible to screen-reading machines for the blind. For example, if you have an image of a smiley face, write the tag like this:
-
-
3
Title your links with informative phrases such as "Next page" rather than simply "click here." Because screen readers can scan only the links on a web page, every link should make sense out of context.
-
4
Structure the navigation of your website similarly on each page.
-
5
Provide headings for your tables and name your pages and frames so they are descriptive of their content.
-
6
Put your buttons and fields in a logical order. For example, put a "Last Name" field directly after a "First Name" field so that the user can tab across the fields in an order that makes sense.
-
7
Add the
-
1
