Accessibility

Following on from our meeting with Sally last week I decided to look into the accessibility of wordpress. I found some documentation on accessibility on the wordpress site. This is the url for the page I found http://codex.wordpress.org/Accessibility. This site was very useful because it showed how people who are visually impaired or disabled use the internet and the ways we can make it easier for them to use. So this was very useful because it showed code we could add to our scrapbook to make it accessible to all. Below is the code to add an alt tag to an image or photograph.

Adding the above code helps people who are visually impaired or disabled because it reads out to them what the image or photo is using a screen reader such as Jaws.

JAWS - Job Access With Speech

Jaws is a screen reader programme that helps the visually impaired to use their computers and surf the net. It helps them by giving them the information that is on screen via what is known as text to speech. This converts the text that appears on screen into speech so a voice on the computer reads out to the user what is on the page of the website they are on.

So we will look to incorporate some accessibility code into our scrapbook.