[games_access] Making Websites and Web Content Marked for Proper Accessibility especially for screen readers

[Ian Hamilton]

There are dedicated web accessibility automated testing tools, such as Wave and Tenon. There isn't anything that can pick up all issues, for example no automated tool has the ability to know whether or not a piece of link text makes sense out of content (although they pick up commonly problematic links such as 'read more' and 'click here'), no way to know whether an alt attribute actually describes the image or not, no way of knowing whether a tab order is logical and so on, so you still need to do manual checking too. 
Ideally it should be a combination of designing to guidelines, both manual and automated checking, and including people with a range of impairments in your testing. But even if all someone does is a quick pass with Wave, that'll still mean more accessibility issues fixed than no checking at all.

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:51:04 -0700
From: brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com
To: games_access at igda.org
Subject: Re: [games_access] Making Websites and Web Content Marked for Proper Accessibility especially for screen readers

Hello,
That browser looks cool, but I try to keep the amount of programs on my computer down. So what works 90% of the time is the copy and paste. Only things that don't show up are the labels of the elements such as link, button, checkbox and whatnot. But those are things my screen reader reads that most people don't see.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Chad Philip Johnson <chad at anacronist.com> wrote:

  
    
  
  
    I'm thinking that a more straightforward test would be to make web
    pages compatible with Lynx, the text-based web browser.

    

    Here is the website:  http://lynx.invisible-island.net/

    

    On a sidenote, a while back I spent a couple of weeks attempting to
    browse the Internet using only Lynx.  Unfortunately, so few websites
    design for this that it wasn't really manageable, so I had to switch
    back.

    Chad Philip Johnson
Anacronist Software
    On 03/22/2016 07:50 PM, Brandon Keith
      Biggs wrote:

    
    
      
        
          
            
              
                Hello,

                
                Here is an article series on how to make your websites
                and web content accessible to screen readers

                https://econsultancy.com/blog/67625-making-your-html-accessible-for-the-visually-impaired/?utm_source=Econsultancy&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6887384_2188-daily-pulse-uk-2016-03-15&dm_i=LQI,43MC8,LJG5EW,EVGH8,1

                

              
              It is super important to use HTML to do the headings,
              paragraphs, buttons, links and everything. I can not tell
              you how many mainstream websites just forget that CSS is
              not Hyper Text. (We use an HTML, not a CSML).

            
            In order for me to move through a website I either need to
            press H to move between headings or arrow down through all
            the links presented above the body. In order for me to read
            links, they need to have text before the </a> tag.
            Indigogo is one website I have been after for a long time to
            make their sharing buttons not blank.

          
          The best test I have found is if you can copy and paste your
          web page and still figure out what is going on, so can i.

        
        Thanks,

        
          
            
              
                
                  
                    
                      
                        
                          
                            Brandon Keith Biggs
                          
                        
                      
                    
                  
                
              
            
          
        
      
      

      
      

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