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A Free Manual for Nonprofits

  • About
  • Search
  • WordPress Basics
    • What is WordPress?
    • Creating Content
  • Types of Content
    • Pages
    • Posts
    • Media Items
  • Content Management Basics
    • Write for the Web
    • The Perils of Poor Formatting
    • Help People with Disabilities
    • Linking to External Sites
    • Linking Within Your Site
    • Adding Images
    • Adding Documents
    • Adding Videos
  • Content Management Mastery
    • Editor Tips and Tricks
    • Linking to Email Addresses
    • Linking Within a Page
    • Redirecting Links
  • Administering Your Site
    • The Admin Bar
    • Managing Users
    • Managing Menus
    • Backing Up the Site
    • Updating Your Software

Help People with Disabilities

Overview

People with visual, motor, or other disabilities face special challenges with websites.

When we take steps to welcome these folks by making their visit as easy as reasonably possible, we are working on the site’s accessibility.

The website itself can help mitigate many of these challenges, but some are under your control when you create content for your site. Respecting the following three guidelines will help you to minimize barriers to your site’s accessibility.

Image descriptions (“alt text”)

Those with visual impairments need the website to describe what’s in an image. This is possible only if you specify alt text for the image. Your alt text should describe the image just as you would describe it to anyone who can’t see it.

Except for images that are decorative (“eye candy”), every image should have meaningful alt text. If you’re not sure how to specify alt text, see the chapter Adding Images > Entering Image Information.

You can also add alt text for a previously uploaded image in two ways:

1.        Edit the image in the Media section of the admin menu.

2.       Edit the post/page where the image was inserted, click the image, then click the pencil icon that appears.

Headings

Good header formatting makes an enormous difference. See The Perils of Poor Formatting > Use the built-in “Heading” styles.

Link text

Good link text makes an enormous difference. See Write for the Web > Link clearly.

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Nonprofit WordPress by Andrew Giesler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://nonprofitwordpress.info.