Day 23: Using Alt Text
Today's accessibilty tip deals with making images usable for screen readers and text-only browsers. They also are handy for visual browsers, since a floating tooltip appears by default when you mouse over an image. My template already includes alt text for all the images. Ever wondered what the # after the date and time of the post is? Point at it with your mouse and a description will pop up.
Before this series started, I thought using alt text was the easiest accessibility aid to use - turns out there are several simpler things, but this is still pretty easy.
Later: I went back and changed the alt text - too much "Click here" in the templates. So, while I was mucking about in the Radio app, I added an access key to the macro (radio.macros.mailTo) that generates the envelope icon and link.
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