Accessible Web Design: Five Big Ideas
- Make sure you can navigate and operate your page with the keyboard alone.
- Include clear and concise ALT attributes for all relevant images and graphics appearing in your site. "Comment out" (for the screen reader) strictly decorative graphics with alt = "". Use a testing tool to view images replaced with their alt text.
- Tables
Data - Use row and column headers to help identify cell contents. In data tables that are nested use the "id" attribute to clarify cell titles.
Layout - How a table content "looks" and how it "reads" can be two different things. Use a tool to linearize your table to make sure it still makes sense. This is the order that a screen reader will read it. - Forms
Use "label" and "fieldset" attributes.
Submit via a "button" rather than an automatic script. - Provide clear and uniform site navigation features and the ability to "skip" to main content.
Access Office
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University Center, Entrance 5, Room 4136
1500 N. Patterson St.
Valdosta, Georgia 31698 -
Mailing Address
1500 N. Patterson St.
Valdosta, GA 31698 - Phone: 229.245.2498
- Video Phone
Video: 229.375.5871 - Fax: 229.293.6309
- University Police
- TTY听TTY: 229.219.1285