Ok. Instead of doing what I planned for this week, I've been the whole time making my site more accessible (Level AAA conformance, no less). I miss my gradient background but its nice to see green ticks when I put my pages through the checker. It took ages to find one that I had any amount of affection for. I finally settled on WebEXACT for the following reasons:
- Its free! An online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility and privacy issues.
- You can choose to test for Priority 1, 2 or 3 automatic checkpoints.
- Optionally expands the code fragments (line, tag, attribute & value) to easily find the location of the problem in your code.
- Provides a detailed guideline for manual checkpoints with number of warnings and instances included.
- Each guideline warning has an explanation and rationale plus links to the WAI Guideline checkpoint references.
Its friendly as far as they go and I think, kinder than some. Anyway, just thought I would share it here coz it might save y'all some time searching.
One that I tried spat the dummy because some of the links in my footer were not reachable by a screen reader within a certain amount of time. What do I do to fix this? I have no idea and not in the mood to research.... sooooo.... if anyone has some pointers, please feel free to comment :)
Now thats out of the way, Im going to do myself some dreaming under a tree and suck up some fresh air and sunshine for the weekend. Yayyyy.
Image : Nyx : "Here be Squirrels"
1 comment:
ha, the bottom of your web page looks like a little trophy shelf now :-)
Shame about the background though. IANAD (i am not a designer), but I think a very pale purple might improve it a little - try out the colour checker at http://www.snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html
and see what you can cook up
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