Michele Jacobs

Tri-City Elementary

Buffalo, IL

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Portfolio Page

BOBBY Results: Bobby found two accessibility errors on this page. The first error occurred with both images not having alternative text by them. The second error noted that the document contains a HTML table with multiple columns of text with no equivalent text-only page.

Changes made: I put in a description underneath each image and added an ALT= tag to identify the image. The html table was noted but format not changed.

Hot Links Page

BOBBY Results:Bobby found one accessibility error on this page. The error was due to the links being adjacent.

Changes made: I numbered the links so that one can tell when one link starts and another link ends.

Activity 1c

BOBBY Results: Bobby found four accessibility errors on these pages. The first error was due to the use of a table (database). The second was due to the horizontal line that I inserted below the header. The third error was due to missing information describing the structure and purpose for each table. The final error was due to adjacent links not being separated.

Changes made: I am noting the table error but not changing it because a database was required. The horizontal line will be replaced to reflect text. I will add information describing the structure and purpose for the table. The adjacent links are all one link but I will separate the link from the text form with a bullet.

Activity 1d

BOBBY Results: Bobby found one accessibility error on this page. The error was due to a horizontal line inserted beneath my headers.

Changes made: I will change the horizontal line to text format using the underline stroke.

Alternative Page Design Strategies

I have a student that will be in my room next year that is visually impaired with a disease called retino-skee-sis. This is a disease that causes blisters to form over the retinal area so that his vision is impaired significantly. He does have better peripheral vision and uses that to compensate. The area of visually impaired readers of Internet information was of great interest to me because of this student. I then researched web access, but concentrated on visually impaired strategies that I could use. My findings are as follows. Michelle Hinn's website that was based on color and background of websites was very interesting. I really never gave much thought to the fact that some colors would make reading of site information very difficult. Michelle Hinn's site let me try different colors and background to see what they would look like. She gave some cautions on colors and background choices as well. I would keep his page very simple and without much color. We had to order different text books for him due to the amount of color that was used in them. We are also going to use yellow acetate pages to mask the color in some books. Another strategy that we are going to implement is a screen magnification tool that is placed on top of the computer screen to magnify the text and images read. A site that discussed this option and several others is bucky.aa.uic.edu/. The other options that this site discussed were screen readers, Braille displays, and large print hard copy options. I found many sites with useful information on all types of disabilities some of which I will discuss in assignment 2c.

Lynx-View

After making the corrections to my pages that Bobby suggested I viewed my pages through Lynx-View. The corrections worked and gave alternative text for my images. I wonder how many people that design web pages really consider what it looks like from a disabled person's point of view. After reviewing many sites through our research and assignments I do not think a large percentage take this into consideration.