Make images small in size, relevant and informative:
How do you do this?
- Optimise images for the web
- Provide thumbnails for larger images (properly reduced in size,
not just a large image with height and width attributes made smaller)
- Specify height and width so that text can be wrapped around
and appear first (if appropriate)
- For larger files, place the images well after introductory
text (which can be read as the images download)
Why? Internet use by people in remote areas is
increasing, but these users are still limited by the 'digital divide':
as significant numbers of remote users are still using dial-up connections because that is all that is available to them, so many people in remote areas browse
web sites with images turned off.
Next Tip: Use text wherever
possible, rather than pictures of text
These tips may be applied to any web site or Vista
course,
and are derived from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web
Accessibility Initiative but are not intended to reinterpret
them. Web developers are encouraged to access the W3C
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 1.0, directly.
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