Sources
This page lists sources and further reading for each tip in How To Make Your Blog Accessible. Clicking on one of the following links will take you directly to that section of this page.
- Choose Text and Background Colors That Everybody Can Read
- Choose Link Colors With Care
- Fight Comment Spam Without Locking Out Readers
- Keep Your Sidebars Organized
- Protect Your Email Address the Right Way
- Break Your Post Into Paragraphs
- Stop Mystery Meat Linkification
- Label Your Images
- Pretty Up Your Lists
Choose Text and Background Colors That Everybody Can Read
- Blogging For Older Readers on Time Goes By
- Applying Color Theory to Digital Displays by Pabini Gabriel-Petit
- Designing for Dyslexics: Part 2 of 3 by Mel Pedley on Accessites.org
- On the readability of inverted color schemes by Joe Dolson
- When accessibility is not your problem by Joe Dolson
- Website Type and Colour for the Visually Impaired from Building Accessible Websites by Joe Dolson
- Special Cases by Jim Thatcher
- Free Online Color Testing Tools for Accessible Website Design at Wild Apricot
- Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 by the W3C
- Effective Color Contrast: Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies by Aries Arditi, PhD
Choose Link Colors With Care
- Colorblind Population at Colblindor
- Dive Into Accessibility Day 12: Using Color Safely
- Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability) by Michael L Bernard
- Links and Hypertext: Link Text and Appearance at Web AIM
- Type and Colour, from Building Accessible Websites by Joe Clark
Fight Comment Spam Without Locking Out Readers
- Web Axe Podcast #40: About CAPTCHA and Accessibility
- Blind Access Journal: Accessible Solutions to Graphical Security Verification Systems
- Defeating Bots with CAPTCHAs on Palisade
- reCAPTCHA Archives on Blind Access Journal
- Making CAPTCHAs less evil? on the BBC's Access 2.0
- A useful CAPTCHA from reCAPTCHA by Joe Dolson
Keep Your Sidebars Organized
- Add structural meaning to image based headings by Jim Byrne at The MCU
Protect Your Email Address the Right Way
- Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation at A List Apart
- Links, on Web Access Centre
- Ensure users can complete and submit all forms at NCDAE
- Using Label in forms at NCDAE
Break Your Post Into Paragraphs
- Blogging For Older Readers on Time Goes By
- Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties by Juicy Studios
- An Accessibility Frontier: Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties by Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley and Peter Firminger
- Accessibility & design: It's not all about CSS and Standards at MasterWeb
Stop Mystery Meat Linkification
- This happens to fall under Guideline 13 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines by the Web Accessibility Initiative
- Click Here and other meaningless link phrases by Roger Johansson
- Links - Web Access Centre
- When a link falls at the end of a sentence always put the full stop outside the anchor tag by Jim Byrne
- Links, at Web Access Centre
- How To: Anchor Text (Don’t Click Here!) on the Web Accessibility Blog
- The article on "Click Here" at Wikipedia
- Jim Thatcher's article Accessible Navigation
- 5 Basic Steps Towards Web Accessibility by Joe Dolson on Improve the Web
- Beyond the Guidelines: Advanced Accessibility Techniques by Trenton Moss at Sitepoint
- When Accessibility Is Not Your Problem by Joe Clark
Label Your Images
- Writing Good ALT Text by Simon Williamson at GAWDS
- Webcredible: Writing Effective ALT Text for Images
- Web Access Centre: Alt text
- WebAxe Episode 18: ALT Attributes -- Use Them, Damn It
- WebAxe Podcast #47: Alternative text in detail
- Dive Into Accessibility Day 23: Providing text equivalents for images
- Dive Into Accessibility Day 21: Ignoring Spacer Images
- How to make non-text elements accessible - some notes
- WebAIM's article Appropriate Use of Alternative Text
- Jim Thatcher's article Text Equivalents for Images (alt-text)
- Guidelines on alt texts in img elements by Jukka Korpela
Pretty Up Your Lists
- Unordered lists: more than just bullets, a W3C QA Tip
- Structure by Web Access Centre
- Using real lists (or faking them properly) at Dive Into Accessibility
- Lists and Accessibility: How and Why?: Web Axe Episode 26
- Text, text, text!: Web Axe Episode 12
