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Images for Disabled Users in Websites

Hi All, These days I am working on project to provide functionality for accessibility/disabled users in our application. We use many of images as well in our web pages. But problem was that how blind user will be able to identify what this image does. There are few things we tried for different kind of images:- a) Normal Images :- These are Images which has some meaning in the web pages for example Image of any famous personality, Building, Place, person anything. For these in HTML best way is to use Image tag " alt " attribute and provide some valid text for that image which describes it. Example:- <img src="images/taj.gif" alt="Tajmahal"> b)  Decorative Images  :- These are Images which has no meaning in the web pages for disabled users.They are there for making page look good for example Image of bullets, Horizontal space. For these in HTML best way is to use Image tag " alt " attribute and provide a blank value for it. This

Google Doodle : Les Paul's 96th Birthday

Awsome Doodle from Google.I am fan of this. This was sample from google Les Paul's 96th Birthday Here is my tune that I recorded My Tune

How to skip focus in HTML

These days I am working on providing accessibility support for our company product. One of the requirement was to skip tabbing of unwanted links and images for the page. I used following technique:- In HTML we have an attribute called " tabindex". This attribute can be used to decide tab order for controls like buttons, textboxes, links, checkboxes etc. If we want any control not to be focused we should set this attribute value to "-1"  (minus one). I will be posting more techniques here watch out.. Happy learning....