Accessibility – Use of ALT Tags
One of the things we do on the CFBISD website is to make use of ALT tags to improve accessibility. What are ALT tags, you might ask? Your web browser (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Chrome, Safari, etc.) reads code on our website. This code is used to deliver the information and graphics you see. The code we write can tell your web browser what size to make the text, when to italicize text, or when to underline it.
In addition to displaying graphics at a certain size, our code can include alternative information (ie, “alt” tags). For those who are unable to see the graphics, the alt tags provide a text alternative. This alternative information can be utilized by those with assistive devices or accessibility software.
We use ALT tags in our code for every single image on our website. This allows users to still ‘see’ the message conveyed in our graphics. If you find an image on our site in which this step was accidentally overlooked, please e-mail us at cfbinfo@cfbisd.edu so we can rectify this immediately.
If you experience difficulty with the accessibility of any web pages or documents on cfbisd.edu, please let us know by filling out this form to request the information you need in an alternate format. A text link to this form can also be found in the footer of every page of our website, labeled “Accessibility.”
We will be publishing more articles on accessibility – click here to see all published articles in this series.