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Easy to Use Web Accessibility Checkers for Beginners

Last Updated: August 17, 2020

For people beginning their web accessibility journey, one of the most daunting tasks can be assessing the content you have already created to learn where and how improvements can be made. Doing a search for “web accessibility checker” returns a long list of free and paid tools and services that allow you, an automated program, or a third party to examine your website and identify problem areas.

However, several of those tools can either require some additional technical or accessibility knowledge that many people are not comfortable using or understanding as they start to learn more about web accessibility.

If you fall into that beginner category and are looking for quick, free, and easy to understand ways of identifying potential usability issues on your website to people with varying disabilities, here are a few resources you can check out to get started!

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Categories: Blog Accessibility
Tags: accessibility resources

How to Add Alternative Text and Image Descriptions to Instagram Posts

Last Updated: September 25, 2021

You always hear it – adding alternative text to your images is the number one suggestion people give when the topic of making your social media accounts more accessible comes up. But sometimes instead of alternative text, people will say image descriptions. Less clear at times is what’s the difference, where to add them, or what to write once you figure out where to put it. So let’s break all of that down.

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Categories: Social Media Accessibility
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What is Alternative Text?

Last Updated: July 10, 2020

We’ve all been there: taking pictures at 20 different angles, editing images to give them just the right look, and spending way too much time going back and forth between two photos with almost imperceptible differences to pick the one that looks juuuuuust right.

We spend excessive amounts of time devoted to choosing the images for our posts and social media to express ourselves and our brand to our audience – but how is that being conveyed when those images can’t be seen? What message is being sent to individuals and search engines who are unable to look at your carefully crafted images – and how can you make sure that message makes the biggest impact for you and your audience?

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Categories: Accessibility Basics
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