Creating usable website solutions
In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn how to build a dedicated usability lab, find out what’s new in the published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, discover how alignment works in flexbox, and more. Continue reading Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News: June 8, 2018
Last week when I asked my friends on Twitter and Facebook whether they added alternative text (alt text) to the photos they post on Facebook, every person replied said they didn’t know they could.
If you share images on Facebook, do you add alternative text to the image?
— Deborah Edwards-Onoro (@redcrew) May 30, 2018
I was a bit surprised, but not entirely.
The news about adding alternative text to Facebook images wasn’t announced in the same way as the news that Twitter added the alternative text feature for images a couple of years ago.
I told my friends I’d probably write a blog post, so other people would know it’s possible. And here it is! Continue reading How to Add Alternative Text to Facebook Photos
Longtime readers of this blog know that I’m an advocate for adding transcripts to podcasts and captions to videos.
Not only do they make your podcasts and videos accessible to a wider audience, transcripts and captions make search engines happy: they can now index your content. Continue reading Podcasts and Transcripts: An Interview with Alaina Wiens