Accessibility and Fangs

[Erica C.]

Hi,
I'm wondering if others have used Fangs (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fangs), the Firefox extension that emulates screen readers,
to check for accessibility with screen readers. I was rather shocked at the results when I tried it for the first time today.

It read out the image filenames for images with null alt text. (alt="") I didn't expect that. Since in some cases, such as images with captions, it seems to make more sense to have no alt text.

I really want to do the right thing in terms of accessibility but I'm finding it hard to determine what that is. :confused:

Erica

[hobbes]

Haven't used Fangs, but depending on site requirements do check for Section508 compliance and through Cynthia's(?) online validation tools.

For images with captions, I simply add an alt="image caption following" or something similar.