Good Alt Text, Bad Alt Text — Making Your Content Perceivable
Ensuring that all the content on your website is perceivable is one of the basic tenets of digital accessibility. Alternative text (or “alt text”) is text that is added to images and other non-text web content so that it can be perceived and understood by people who may not be able to see or otherwise grasp the meaning of it.
Less is More: Writing in Plain Language
What words come to mind when you hear someone talk about “plain language”? “Clear,” “easily understood,” or “simple”? If you thought of these or something like them, you’d be on the right track with what makes plain language, well, “plain”. But writing in plain language means much more than just using familiar words or keeping sentences short. It’s also about your writing style, how content is organized, and knowing your audience.