2/9/2025
For this week’s Vivero Training, I learned a bit more about accessibility in webdesign and digital content creation. Here are some of my findings!
Web Accessibility Perspectives Videos: Something that I hadn’t thought about was the accessibility of words, such that some websites are simply more accessible to read. It makes me wonder about how to keep academic sites accessible to all, and how much further progress must be done for the accessibility of academia in general.
Through looking at the WCAG 2.1 AA, I identified three examples of accessibility needs that I hadn’t known before.
- An example of a technical feature that can be implemented through redesign: The ability to stop and start audio that auto plays on a webpage.
- An example of a more conceptual feature that must be implemented through the creating of the content: The ability to have websites orient the same way both vertically and horizontally
- Something that I hadn’t before considered as an accessibility need: I hadn’t actually thought before about the need to add alt text to buttons or links describing their functions.
The errors about this site that I need to fix are some redundant links, as well as a long alt description for my profile picture. I also need to see if I can turn one of my home page links, the “Kiera Vivero Portfolio”, into heading style. I’m planning on fixing this potentially by unlinking some of the redundant links, like removing links from headings if that is possible, as well as creating a shorter alt description for my image. As of posting this, I’ve fixed the alt descriptions but not the linking! I’ll get to that soon!