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Making a personal website easy to consume (self.Blind)
submitted by peripheraltangent
Hi folks. I have a personal website where I post stories, productivity tips, etc., created with hand-coded HTML. Totally non-commercial, just a way to share things with the world.
I would like to make sure that it is easily read by the blind and visually impaired. How would I best go about checking it? I've started with the page $1.
Thanks.
I would like to make sure that it is easily read by the blind and visually impaired. How would I best go about checking it? I've started with the page $1.
Thanks.
retrolental_morose 5 points 1y ago
runs great with speech and braille. Good heading count, well-alt'd IMG tags, nice to hear and feel. Haven't looked deeper than a casual slim but no cookie popups, no flashing focus grabbers. A nice quiet page.
peripheraltangent [OP] 2 points 1y ago
Thank you for your feedback!
Real_Ad1154 2 points 1y ago
The site works well here with my screen reader. Thanks for labeling your images by the way. Waaaaaay too many people forget to do that.
MostlyBlindGamer 2 points 1y ago
As a low vision reader, I'd prefer sans serif fonts, overall, and a larger default font size. Otherwise, it looks good.
Pretty much all browser have accessibility tests in their dev tools. If you want deeper insights, consider the axe dev tools extension.
Pretty much all browser have accessibility tests in their dev tools. If you want deeper insights, consider the axe dev tools extension.
peripheraltangent [OP] 3 points 1y ago
Thanks! I’ll take a look.
bradley22 2 points 1y ago
I’m not sure how to do ot but, but I think you can make it so the user chooses the size of the font they want.
peripheraltangent [OP] 1 points 1y ago
I only have a few of the pages labeled so far, but I’m working on it!
peripheraltangent [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Update: I’ve updated most pages with alt tags. Thanks for the help!
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