A public library’s website has iconified buttons instead of textual buttons; I assume to make it easy for those who don’t speak the local language.

The code snip looks like this:


           <div>Wifi</div>
     
 
           <div><p></p>
</div>

Will that cause problems for blind people considering alt=""?

I don’t have a screen reader or whatever tools blind people use, so I’m somewhat blind in being able to know if the website is reasonably accessible. Lynx shows the button descriptions just fine, so I think if a blind user ran #Lynx with a screen reader the UX would work. But what if a GUI browser is used in order to run JavaScript? I loaded the site in a GUI browser with image loading disabled and the text description (“WiFi” in this case) does not appear unless I hover the mouse over the substitute icon for the missing icon. So the question is: do a screen readers handle that okay?

EDIT: Shit, my HTML code was gutted by #Lemmy even though it was a code block thus making the above code useless (calling that a #LemmyBug). Perhaps it’s not important for answering my question. (bug reported)

  • MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.comMEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    I wouldn’t expect a JS file dedicated to accessibility to be necessary, but it could indicate a bad retrofit. Or not, who knows.

    If you want to get deeper into testing with Firefox, you can check out this guide. Either way, I’m kinda curious about looking at the website myself, if you wouldn’t mind sharing a link.

    • soloActivistOPEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I appreciate the link, though the steps in that article are incompatible with my Firefox installation. Perhaps these are new features. When I right-click on an object, there is no “accessibility” option.