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Plain Language: Use Descriptive and Meaningful Text in Your Links

December 12, 2015 By Deborah Edwards-Onoro

Metal chain links

Have you ever visited a website, selected a link, only to discover the page you were taken to wasn’t what you expected?

Or worse, you selected the link on your mobile device, and a 5MB Excel spreadsheet started to download?

Me too. And it irritates me. Continue reading Plain Language: Use Descriptive and Meaningful Text in Your Links

Filed Under: Accessibility, User experience Tagged With: Digital Gov, link text, plain language, screen reader, webinar

Three Tips to Improve the Accessibility on Your Website

February 10, 2014 By Deborah Edwards-Onoro

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at our Metro Detroit WordPress group about how to improve accessibility on your website. Creating an accessible website allows everyone, no matter their application, software, hardware or other capabilities, to use your site.

The presentation shared easy steps people can apply immediately on their website to make it more accessible.

Continue reading Three Tips to Improve the Accessibility on Your Website

Filed Under: Accessibility, WordPress Tagged With: alternative text, captions, eye tracking, link text, Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup, Microsoft Surface, Steve Gleason, transcripts, videos

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