[games_access] Making Websites and Web Content Marked for Proper Accessibility especially for screen readers

Wed Mar 23 00:46:24 EDT 2016

Hello,
I placed this in the <head> of my document:

<style>
p = {
    font-weight: bold;
}
</style>

It did not show up as bold on my screen reader. But frankly, I don't hardly
ever have the feature on my screen reader to say bold on. It is just
annoying and not useful.
Labeling is way more important. But if you can do it in HTML, do it.
Otherwise, do it in CSS and Javascript.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Dan Fischbach <blindwolf8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did not see this mentioned in the post, but I remember reading somewhere
> that you should not do bold, italics, or underlines with CSS and should do
> it with ye olde HTML tags as screen readers actually recognize these and
> read them differently. Is there any truth to this?
>
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> On Mar 22, 2016 11:51 PM, "Brandon Keith Biggs" <
> brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> That browser looks cool, but I try to keep the amount of programs on my
>> computer down. So what works 90% of the time is the copy and paste. Only
>> things that don't show up are the labels of the elements such as link,
>> button, checkbox and whatnot. But those are things my screen reader reads
>> that most people don't see.
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Chad Philip Johnson <chad at anacronist.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I'm thinking that a more straightforward test would be to make web pages
>>> compatible with Lynx, the text-based web browser.
>>>
>>> Here is the website:  http://lynx.invisible-island.net/
>>>
>>> On a sidenote, a while back I spent a couple of weeks attempting to
>>> browse the Internet using only Lynx.  Unfortunately, so few websites design
>>> for this that it wasn't really manageable, so I had to switch back.
>>>
>>> Chad Philip Johnson
>>> Anacronist Software
>>>
>>> On 03/22/2016 07:50 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Here is an article series on how to make your websites and web content
>>> accessible to screen readers
>>>
>>> https://econsultancy.com/blog/67625-making-your-html-accessible-for-the-visually-impaired/?utm_source=Econsultancy&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6887384_2188-daily-pulse-uk-2016-03-15&dm_i=LQI,43MC8,LJG5EW,EVGH8,1
>>>
>>> It is super important to use HTML to do the headings, paragraphs,
>>> buttons, links and everything. I can not tell you how many mainstream
>>> websites just forget that CSS is not Hyper Text. (We use an HTML, not a
>>> CSML).
>>> In order for me to move through a website I either need to press H to
>>> move between headings or arrow down through all the links presented above
>>> the body. In order for me to read links, they need to have text before the
>>> </a> tag. Indigogo is one website I have been after for a long time to make
>>> their sharing buttons not blank.
>>> The best test I have found is if you can copy and paste your web page
>>> and still figure out what is going on, so can i.
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
>>>
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