Green Room - Week 10 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Good morning and welcome to that slow march to ChristmasGary Present Day!!

Speaking of presents - Happy birthday to our own boxsofrain!

Happy BELATED birthday to our very own elderwoodpixie!!!

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So what have are you guys up to this fine morning/afternoon/whenever it is that you read this?

Comments

[crowblood-heart.livejournal.com]

... Out of curiosity... are you doing the text next to the buttons for the sake of people with screen readers?

'cause I'm 90% certain that if that's the reason, you could also do this!

<img src="imageurl" alt="explanation text" />

That SHOULD make the image not be read as "image" but as whatever the explanation text is(try to keep it short and specific -- i use more for images on my LJ, but generally the idea is the KISS[keep it simple stupid] principle of usability professionals) , if I'm remembering the whole speech my professor gave on "the importance of alt text for accessibility".

Yeah I'm an XHTML 1.0 geek.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I was a CS major, and I used to code web designs for a living for a marketing company. We were HORRIBLE at accessible design then. I provided all the underlying logic code, but the people who made decisions further up cared about "impact" and not usability.

I cut and paste from a spreadsheet which identifies which icon I am copying into the comment. I don't want to assume that the web browser someone is using is XHMTL 1.0 compliant, so I still try to include descriptive text with all my images (though I do forget).

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

It is appreciated, since some graphics, although, a lot are alt tagged, some graphics don't mean much ... trying to be descriptive as much as possible is easier to know, instead of hearing, "http... blah blah blah". or reading the long string of HTML code on my braille display as well.