{"id":65,"date":"2007-08-01T14:37:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T14:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/08\/01\/writing-web-pages-the-alt-attribute-is-important\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T14:37:44","slug":"writing-web-pages-the-alt-attribute-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/08\/01\/writing-web-pages-the-alt-attribute-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing web pages &#8211; the alt attribute is important."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/revivinganorexicwebwriting\">article about writing for the web<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/revivinganorexicwebwriting\">A List Apart<\/a>, with this anecdote about including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alt_attribute\">alt attributes<\/a> to provide content for visually impaired users:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cIf a user is blind,\u201d I reasoned, \u201cwhat does he care that I have a photograph of the university tower on my website?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My fellow designer shrugged. \u201cWell, I guess if you don\u2019t really care about what the image <em>says<\/em>,\u201d she said slowly, \u201cyou really don\u2019t need it in the first place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m generally pretty good at including useful alt text, but this is a great way of saying why we should do it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice article about writing for the web on A List Apart, with this anecdote about including alt attributes to provide content for visually impaired users: \u201cIf a user is blind,\u201d I reasoned, \u201cwhat does he care that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/08\/01\/writing-web-pages-the-alt-attribute-is-important\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}