Coolfields Consulting Archive for the ‘Accessibility’ Category
Building Accessible WordPress Themes – Featured Images
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If you’re pulling featured images into your WordPress theme, are you setting the alternate text for the image correctly? Let me show you how to get it right.
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How to Build an Accessible WordPress Theme
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A write-up of key points from my presentation at WordCamp London 2019 consisting of a series of ‘tips and tricks’ for building accessible WordPress themes.
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Accessibility Checklist
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This accessibility checklist was created to accompany my presentation entitled ‘How to Build an Accessible WordPress Theme’ for WordCamp London 2019 – held on 5th – 7th April 2019. The checklist contains a reminder of all the little tips and tricks that can make a theme more accessible. There’s advice for content authors/editors too.
Street Accessibility for the Blind in Vienna (Video)
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Recently I attended WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna – the busy capital city of Austria. Whilst on my way to and from the conference venue I came across these interesting tactile blind accessibility guides at all the traffic light controlled pedestrian crossings. They described each pedestrian crossing in terms of the number of lanes of traffic, or tram tracks, or […]
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Instagram Accessibility Reduced by New Design
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The Instagram app has changed, with a new icon and a new design. But is the new design a step forward for accessibility? I don’t think so. In this post I compare the new design with the previous design to highlight where the accessibility problems are.
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Text for Screen Readers Only (Updated)
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Blind visitors to your site may well be using a screen reader, or a braille reader. There are a number of places on a web page where extra text would sometimes be useful for blind users to ensure that the full meaning of the content is apparent. This post shows you how to do that.
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How to Find an Accessible WordPress Theme
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Ideas on how to find an accessible WordPress theme – whether from the WordPress theme repository, or from other sources.
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I’m Taking Part in Inclusive Design 24
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I’m taking part in Inclusive Design 24 – a 24 hour event for Global Accessibility Awareness Day – 15th May 2014. I shall be presenting a webinar on how to test the accessibility of your own website.
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Dragon Naturally Speaking Video 10 – Drag and Drop
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Sometimes you need drag and drop functionality on a website, or on your computer. But how do you do drag and drop with Dragon NaturallySpeaking? I’ll show you.
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Dragon Naturally Speaking Video 9 – Internet Forms
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How to interact with web forms using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I cover the most useful commands to enable you to do this easily – assuming the form has been marked up properly.
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