Quick Tip: Language of content in a page The language of a web page must be identified with the lang attribute on the <html> element (Example: <html lang=”en-US“>). This helps ensure that a screen reader will present the content using the appropriate language vocabulary, intonations, and pronunciations. If a portion… Continue Reading Web Accessibility Tip – December 2019
WebAIM, one of the world leaders in information and resources promoting website accessibility has announced a major update/upgrade to their on-line automatic web accessibility assessment tool, WAVE. Shorthand for the “Web Accessibility EValuation”, WAVE has been used by developers, designers and users to test websites for almost 20 years. It… Continue Reading WebAIM Updates WAVE Tool
In an article recently published by WebAIM, 98% of a sample of nonprofit homepages contained WCAG conformance failures that were automatically detected by WebAIM’s accessibility tools. The results come from a study, The WebAIM Million – an accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages, conducted by WebAIM earlier this… Continue Reading Nonprofit websites often fail accessibility