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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Sep 9, 2015 10:05AM

Angela, I see a lot of options here, but the organization you have seems reasonable to me. I would be interested in seeing what the rest of the list has to say, but I think the simplest way to improve its accessibility is to use the title of each report as the alt text for its respective icons. So:
' Instead of alt="word" use alt="Dec 2014. Word. Centralia. Student Services. 30000123."

Whatever you do, you will hear from people who use screen readers to produce lists of links: "Half the links begin with 'Dec 2014'. And a third begin with that plus "Word"! How am I supposed to find the one I want?"

I'd suggest they use their browser's search to look for the facility's name or location.

I definitely would not flip the alt text around—in other words, not alt="Centralia. Student Services. 30000123. Dec 2014. Word." If I did that, then people reading the whole page would hear the title of the report twice before hearing the date published and file format.

There are other reasonable solutions:
' Change the tag of each cell in column 1 from <td> to <th> andlet the table



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> On Sep 8, 2015, at 2:35 PM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am looking for ideas on restructuring this page: http://sbctc.edu/college/_f-majorprojectstatrep.aspx
>
> I am not a fan of how the actual document link is not connected to the actual document name, but given that it occurs in multiple years (the columns) this was how it was done. The other issue is that some items actually have two document file types presented.
>
> I would appreciate different ideas to consider that make it both highly usable, but of course, accessible.
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> Angela French
> Internet Specialist
> Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
> 360-704-4316
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