I have gone through my website and tried to make sure it is as accessible as possible. Firstly, I went through all the images and added alt text, then I adjusted my colors and gradient type to make sure the color contrast was stark enough. I also went through and deleted any empty textbox’s that I had left around, and finally, I changed my main font to be more easily legible. I also downloaded an accessibility plug-in to check all of my work, and good thing I did because I had missed putting alt text for an image!
One thing I still need to do for my site is add a light mode setting, but I had a hard time finding a plug-in that would allow color customization for free. The colors to my site are quite specific and add to the mood, so it is important to me that both dark and light modes reflect that. I also did not change my header font for the sake of maintaining the theme of the site, I had trouble finding a way to check of fonts are accessible, but I do not think it is too hard to read. Either way I’ll find some time to ask about it and maybe fix it.
This is the link to my Bad Example Site. For this I started off by adding some random empty text boxes, adding an image with important information with no alt text, and a random suspicious link. I then went in and made the font tiny, way too close to the background color, and in the most illegible font I could find. I cannot even read it, so I think this is a successful bad example.
That is all for today, and as always, stay creative!
Teagan Stacy