That is why you should always fill in a value for ALT on an image. These extra fields
allow for devices that can read an audible version of the page for the visually impaired.
Speech to text can take care of the main part of a page while the "alt" values
for images allow the image to be described even if it is as simple as "GaGenWeb
Logo" or something similar. Use of an html verifier( available at sites such as W3C
at
www.w3.org ) on your pages will remind you to fill in these fields.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: shadri
To: GAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [GAGEN] Need input please
From: Jeanne Arguelles
A visitor to the Madison County
page asked if I would make the print "much
larger", as it is very difficult to read<
Jeanne and All,
There is no way to make a site easily viewable to everyone. My heart wishes
it was possible. We have a number of folks in the Ware County area with
vision problems. However, the situations are so different for each, that to
make it easier to see for one, would make it impossible for another. Two
examples of Ware folks: One subscriber has to use a "Gordy" [fits on the
head] and a huge screen like a television screen to be able to see anything,
whereas another subscriber and a cousin to this first one, can only see the
equivalency of about 8 newspaper fonts at the time. Some must have a highly
'textured' background to contrast with the print, whereas others cannot see
a thing if there is a background. As much as I would love to know there is
something I could do to make it just right for each of them, I can't. That
is why it must be done from their end, as others have already said.
Sharon Wright
Ware County
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