What have I learned?
I learned today that I didn’t really think about accessibility before today, especially how it actually helps other people in the long run. I didn’t know that specific hyper links should have a meaningful word attached rather than just “Here”, something I’m very guilty of. I always thought it looked neater but I can now understand how there may be some confusion with where the hyperlink is placed if it’s not labelled correctly. I also didn’t know that there were specific plugins designed to make the website more accessible which is really helpful and something that I fully intend on using often. Lastly, I didn’t know that accessibility was something that companies could be sued over and I find that very interesting, although helpful in the way that it enforces accessibility.
Questions
I think if I absolutely had to think of a question, I would ask how one could install a website reader and how those work, especially with getting access to the alternative text. I personally rely more on reading than hearing because I have a tendency to not process words that well if they’re spoken too fast or I’m not ready, so seeing the reasoning behind something I wouldn’t normally use seems like something I should do.
Final Thoughts
I’ve gone through all of my pages and posts to make sure I don’t have any naked links, or photos without alternative text, or colors too close together that may be difficult to read. Using the accessibility reader was really interesting, especially seeing what it counted because things like comments and the users icons, things I can’t change, are flagged because the colors might blend in and I can’t add alternative text. But overall everything seemed to check out and I ended with a 95%, including the things I personally can’t change.