Guitar chords format
I have a music song site and wish to make the lyrics and chords readable to all.
Do I use square brackets or round brackets to represent the chords?
I tried to put examples in this post with square brackets and round brackets but it would allow me to send the message
Here is a page from the site I think I have made to be screen reader accessible - this uses square brackets:
http://www.irishmusicforever.com/all-for-me-grog/lyrics-and-chords/screen-reader
Is there anything else I could do to make it more accessible?
Thank you for your help.
Maggie K
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Hi Maggie,
I'm not sure how different screen readers would read out the notes in either square or circle brackets. I would have thought, given the context of the site, that it would be fairly obvious to users what the different letters mean in either case. I suppose you could make the notes <strong> so that they are announced in a slightly different way, to help distinguish them?
James Coltham - Local gov web manager by day, web and accessibility blogger at lunchtime, freelancer by night. Tweets at @prettysimple.
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one more thing you could do is to put a brief explanation of what the bracket means at some point on the page or possible on another page, i.e. an accessibility statement page .
though if you couldn't figure out that the brackets mean a cord ( context and content), i would say that your where not the brightest spark on the web.
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