Also, people using older browsers or text-based browsers, such as the Rio Grande
Free net, may experience the same problems.
Meeting the below requirements will help make your web page accessible to all your audience. Following these requirements, are some additional guidelines to make your page more user-friendly.
The following are A.D.A. compliance requirements for E.P.C.C. web pages:
1. Provide alternative text for all images, applets, image maps and other graphical
representations that can not be viewed with a text-based browser. Do this using
the ALT attribute.
2. Transcribe audio and video clips if they contain important information.
3. If you use frames, provide an alternate “No Frames” page. Screen reader
technology, used by the blind, can not properly process frames.
4. If your pages contain moving, scrolling, blinking or auto-updating objects or pages
(like refreshable pages) provide an option to pause or freeze the movement. Screen readers
can not read moving text. Further, blinking objects in the 4 to 59 flashes per second (Hertz)
range can cause people with epilepsy to have seizures.
5. Provide an alternative to C.G.I. Script forms, for example, a printable form that the user
can fill out and mail in.
6. Buttons should be min. .5” by .5” (for persons with motor disabilities).
7. If you use tables (for other than layout), ensure that they have the proper markup to be
understandable by browsers that don’t support tables (i.e. use the “summary” attribute,
and label rows and columns with the header tags). Generally, avoid using tables purely
for layout purposes unless the table makes sense when linearized (screen readers only
read from left-to-right).
8. Use descriptive text links. The text associated with the link should clearly indicate
the destination of that link. For example, for the text “Click here to Return to Home Page,”
“Return to Home Page“ should be the active link (e.g. underlined and in a different color,
indicating that it is a link). Don’t make “Click here” the active link.
9. Testing