Helping Every Learner Navigate, Interact, and Participate If you haven’t explored the Operable principle yet, start with the previous post on Operable. Once content is perceivable, the next step is ensuring learners can actually interact with it. Below are practical...
The Deadline Moved. The Work Didn’t. The U.S. Department of Justice announced a one‑year extension to the compliance deadlines for the ADA Title II Web and Mobile Accessibility rule. For many public entities, including school districts, the announcement offered a...
Images without text alternatives are invisible to screen readers. When you include alternative text (alt text), you ensure everyone can understand the purpose of an image, even if they can’t see it. What Alt Text Should Do Alt text should explain: What the image...
Headings support a document’s visual layout, and they also provide structure that screen readers and keyboard users rely on to move through content efficiently. Screen readers and keyboard users rely on heading levels to jump through content efficiently. Without...
Screen readers pull up a list of all links on a page. If every link says “click here” or “read more,” it’s impossible to know what each one does. Links should tell users exactly where they are going. What Makes a Link Accessible Accessible links: Describe the...
