- When you’re screen-capping an ask, copy and paste the question and answer. Both sets of text are right there in front of you, whereas anyone else would have to copy it down word-for-word. Which is a pain in the ass (especially for folks with dyslexia or other, related learning disabilities).
- Put your blogroll/links on the right side of your blog. Otherwise, people using screen readers would have to hear all the links before getting to your actual content.
- When a follower replies to one of your posts, don’t upload an image of the dashboard notification. Copy & paste it if you’re going to reply. This way, screen readers will read the reply as text. Otherwise, they won’t be able to because it’s an image.
- If you’re uploading a song and commenting on it, at least put the artist and song title, so that deaf/hard of hearing readers can google the lyrics. (It’s also good practice to link to the lyrics, if you can).
- If you’re uploading/reblogging a video, google the video’s title + “transcript” to see if there’s one all written out already. (If someone’s taken the time to write out a transcript, please don’t rip them off, though. Give them credit!)
- If you’re uploading audio/video of something you wrote, add the text. Unless you’re speaking extemporaneously, you probably have a document with an approximate transcript anyway.
Yay accessibility and minimal effort!!
Cool tips, cheers.
Cool, I didn’t know about the right-side thing. Too bad mine has a 3 column layout. ):
It depends how the code is setup.
There are ways of making a three column layout where the left column is actually after the middle one in the code itself and is simply displayed in visual browsers as on the left of the middle column. That way screen readers and similar things will present the middle column first anyway, and people using visual browsers will still see the layout in all its three-column glory.
Yay for CSS floats!
I’m going to change my theme… I don’t think it’s very accessible.