30 days to a more accessible web site by Mark Pilgrim of Dive Into Accessibility is a useful online course that presents 25 tips that although written with an emphasis on blogging can be applied to websites to make them more accessible.
Day 23 particularly caught my eye as I was talking in class about it earlier in the week. Using alt text is important mainly because of accessibility issues those being that “screen readers read it, text-only browsers display it, Google indexes it, and visual browsers can display it as a tooltip or on the status line”.
