Questions & Answers
Why aren’t accessibility best practices part of WCAG success criteria?
Accessibility guides and audit results will include “accessibility best practices” that aren’t tied to a specific success criterion. If these practices are helpful, why aren’t they already success criteria in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines?
- best practices
- user experience
How detailed should image alt text be?
We’re writing image descriptions for product pages, and there are a lot of image details we could potentially include in the alternative text. How much detail is really required?
- alt text
- best practices
- images
How should keyboard navigation work in a group of radio buttons?
Let's say we have a form with a few multiple choice questions, each with a "Yes" and “No" radio button option. Should tabbing be used to move from question to question, but not for the options within each question (use left and right or up...
- best practices
- keyboard navigation
- radio button
How do I request accessibility fixes for a 3rd party tool?
Some of the WCAG accessibility issues on my website are from 3rd party tools that are out of my control. What should I do?
- best practices
- third party
- wcag
Are “ghost tab stops” considered accessibility violations under WCAG?
There's an element on my site that makes the keyboard tab to it even though there isn't a visible item to focus on. Will this "ghost tab stop" fail under the WCAG?
- best practices
- cognitive
- keyboard
- keyboard navigation
- usability
- wcag
Is it compliant to have the same link present twice, as both an image and as text?
Is it considered accessible to have an image that acts as a link, followed by text that links to the same location?
- accessibility tree
- best practices
- links
- wcag
Do I need to add a ‘role’ attribute to html 5 tags like nav aside, main, etc.?
I am using the new html 5 tags on my site to give it more semantics. In addition to this should they all be given the corresponding role?
- best practices
- html
How do I know if my websites structure is laid out correctly?
My page looks good visually, but I am not sure if its structure is laid out properly or if I used the right elements. How am I supposed to know if I've done things the "right" way?
- best practices
- building content
- html
- page structure
How do you fix a “suspicious link text” warning in the Wave Scanner?
I ran my page through the wave scanner in chrome and got 'suspicious link text' as a warning. My question is this... how specific do I need to make the text? If I go over the top and make it super specific it goes away...
- best practices
- building content
- html
- wave scanner