Questions & Answers
Do the ads on my site need to follow accessibility guidelines?
Do ads that show on sites need to follow accessibility guidelines? I am a bit concerned if they do as I don't really have control over what ads are showing. Off the top of my head, I am most concerned about the really obnoxious flashy...
- ads
- flashes
- third party
Can I specify the language of specific parts of my page?
As an example, let's suppose I want to write the following. 'The french word bonjour means hello in english.' My sites language is english, but I would like screen readers to know that 'bonjour' is written in french. Is that something I should even bother...
- building content
- translations
How can I make my website available in other languages?
I have a Wordpress site written in English. Do you guys know of a plugin or something that I can do to make it available in other languages as well?
- translations
- wordpress
How do I change the order the elements on my page are given focus?
When I tab through the elements on my site with the keyboard everything is almost perfect except for a couple case where it looks like the order is messed up. How can I change the order the elements on my page are given focus when...
- best practices
- html
- keyboard
- page structure
How do I navigate a website with my keyboard?
I've been reading about how I need to make sure my site can be navigated with a keyboard. Honestly, I'm not even sure where to start because I don't know what button I would hit on my keyboard. How do I navigate a website with...
- keyboard
Is there a form element meant to provide instruction?
I know how to add labels to form inputs to 'label' what they are. I am wondering if there is something similar for describing what a field is in more details? I want to there to be little text under a text field but don't...
- best practices
- form
- html
How to fix incorrect youtube cc and transcript?
I've posted a video on youtube with lots of speaking, and some of the captions that are automatically generated by youtube aren't correct. How can I change them?
- audio
- captions
- translations
- video
- youtube
How do I add alt text to background images?
How do I add alternative text to describe background images? Or do I not need to worry about that?
- best practices
- building content
- CSS
- html
- images
What is Time-based media?
I see that one of the web accessibility guidelines is 'Time-based Media'. What is that?
- flashes
- images
- video
- youtube