Mark E. Buckley

Site Accessibility

One goal for your site should be to make it accessible for people with disabilities. Generally if you follow best practices by having a valid and well formed document you are half way there. Here are some items to consider.

All img tags should have an alt attribute. Devices that assist the disabled will read these attributes instead of the image itself.

Use an alt="" for spacer type images.

Use alternate text inside object tag. Likewise use noembed tag with embed tag.

Use longdesc attribute for images that contain necessary data, e.g. calendar or pie chart

Use alternate information for frames or iframes. Alternatively just forgo these elements since they are not current best practices.