Universal Design for the Web

Question 1

What is Universal Design?

Answer 1

Create products and environments that the vast majority of people can use, taking into account our natural physical diversity.

Question 2

Can blind people see images?

Answer 2

No.

Question 3

What is alt text?

Answer 3

Every time you add an image to a web page, you have to add a text alternative for that image. On the web, you do that by adding text to the alt attribute (alt stands for alternative text). This alt text is usually invisible. Most of the time, your sighted users will not see it. However, if an image doesn’t load properly (for instance, if the Internet connection is too slow), the alt text will be displayed. But usually, the only people who will know the alt text is there are your blind users, who will hear the alt text read out loud to them, or they will feel characters with their fingers if they are using Braille output.

Question 4

Which of the following is an example of good link text? “Click Here”, “Read More…”, or “Products and Services”.

Answer 4

“Products and Services”.

Question 5

Why is using good link text important?

Answer 5

When screen reader users hear poor link text out of context they won’t know where the link goes.

Question 6

What would make podcasts accessible to a person who is deaf?

Answer 6

Transcripts.

Question 7

What helps make videos accessible to a person who is blind?

Answer 7

Audio descriptions describing what happens on-screen.

Question 8

Which accessibility design feature should be visible to sighted keyboard users when the item receives keyboard focus?

Answer 8

“Skip navigation” links.

Question 9

What is true about data tables?

Answer 9

For data tables to be accessible to screen reader users, header cells must be associated with all cells in the row or column.