Accessibility for blind people

Blind or visually impaired persons use a so called screen reader to view webpages. At one time they can only display 40 characters, as if they are looking through a straw.
According to this article there are a couple things you can easily do to make your website more accessible for everyone and especially for blind and visually impaired people:

• Use the "alt" attributes to describe images (so screen/braille readers can read the image)
• Write meaningful links (making links understandable out of context for users who are scanning the page for links, what blind people often do)
• Use effective page titles and headings (while this is the first thing a screen/braille reader tells to the user)
• Use heading tags instead of font tags so the screen/braille reader can jump from one heading to the next

You will also find a paragraph on the accessibility of ipods/mp3-players.

Read the full article at: Accessibility for blind people.

p.s. You can't provide an "alt" attribute to an image you upload in this blog, only when you type it in the HTML-code itself. In TeleTOP you can type in the "alt" attribute of an image very easily, something I have been a bit lazy in doing I must admit.