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silktide

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About silktide

We create website testing software that helps make the web a better place

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    Yeah I agree, it's useful as an absolute bare minimum. But you shouldn't just get the green tick and rest on your laurels

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    I did look at this before doing testing for this article, but I assume not many blind users will use this setup. When I tested websites I tried to make my experience match the majo…

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    Many web devs use the W3C validator and assume the green tick means it's completely accessible. But they can only check for so much, which makes it almost useless. There's no subst…

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    Haha yes you're right, but the title was getting quite long, and I was hoping that would be implied! I could have extended this further and written about how being blind affected o…

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    Are you supplying unnecessary alt text?

    Discussion about whether you should always add alt text to images on websites, even if they're not relevant to blind users

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    The cookie law is dead, you’re welcome

    Last week we laid down a bitter ultimatum to the guardians of the cookie law: Go Ahead And Sue Us. We stripped our sites bare of cookie warnings and begged them to do their worst.