Comments on: Accessible design is the law – Target being sued! http://www.guerillainternetmarketing.com/web-design/accessible-design-is-the-law-target-being-sued/ Search Engine Marketing, Social Networking, Search Engine Optimization, Link Building, etc. - All Internet Marketing, all made easy! Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:53:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bhancock http://www.guerillainternetmarketing.com/web-design/accessible-design-is-the-law-target-being-sued/comment-page-1/#comment-45 bhancock Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:28:12 +0000 http://www.guerillainternetmarketing.com/web-design/accessible-design-is-the-law-target-being-sued/#comment-45 Unfortunately, the guidelines aren't very clear either. People have said this Target lawsuit stems from them not putting ALT tags on images on their site, but I haven't seen anything concrete that explains the specific violations. In general, I think the most important elements center around ALT tags that accurately describe the images, staying away from table based designs (use DIVs instead), and using descriptive link text (which is good for SEO as well). Screen readers for the deaf read from left to write and the translation can be confused without keeping this in mind. Unfortunately, the guidelines aren’t very clear either. People have said this Target lawsuit stems from them not putting ALT tags on images on their site, but I haven’t seen anything concrete that explains the specific violations.

In general, I think the most important elements center around ALT tags that accurately describe the images, staying away from table based designs (use DIVs instead), and using descriptive link text (which is good for SEO as well). Screen readers for the deaf read from left to write and the translation can be confused without keeping this in mind.

]]> By: Steven Snell http://www.guerillainternetmarketing.com/web-design/accessible-design-is-the-law-target-being-sued/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Steven Snell Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:17:59 +0000 http://www.guerillainternetmarketing.com/web-design/accessible-design-is-the-law-target-being-sued/#comment-44 I've seen this headline a lot recently, and it is a little bit scary for anyone doing business online. Even though I try to design sites to be accessible, I don't use them the same way a handicapped person would, so I may be missing things. I’ve seen this headline a lot recently, and it is a little bit scary for anyone doing business online. Even though I try to design sites to be accessible, I don’t use them the same way a handicapped person would, so I may be missing things.

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