Writing Accessible HTML - Text

• Visual formatting ignored by screen readers

  • Use ALT text for separators
  • Don’t use BLINK and MARQUEE

• Lists - start and end

  • use proper list elements
  • use numbered lists

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Narrated: “Text-only web pages are accessible, right? Not really. I’m annoyed when I see text blinking or having to follow text scrolling through the screen like credits in a movie. And what about (bad) backgrounds, like this?” (Gestures to a busy background design and shakes his head.)