{"id":20559,"date":"2026-09-06T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=20559"},"modified":"2026-09-06T00:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:58:46","slug":"teaching-redundant-writing-tips-or-digital-accessibility-example-you-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/06\/teaching-redundant-writing-tips-or-digital-accessibility-example-you-decide\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Redundant Writing OR Digital Accessibility Example: You Decide!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The writing tips below are mostly reasonable. I\u2019m contesting the advice that <em>turning<\/em> means the same thing as <em>turning around<\/em>. I loved helping students with application essays come to understand that they didn\u2019t need \u201cI think.\u201d The whole essay was supposed to show their thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the <strong>color contrast<\/strong> here is awful\u2014yellow text on a red background! EEK! Further, the alt text is computer generated (so full of fluff). For instance, here&#8217;s the alt attribute for the first image: <code>May be an image of text that says 'rebecca.watson.writes 20h Suggested Suggestedforyou for you Follow Open your manuscript and DELETE these redundant phrases @rebecca.watson.writes'<\/code>. Right. So these could also be used to talk about digital accessibility.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Jg1BexMZJjw1DVRRQkEkUkis96rGeSpEA2nqcTtzBRs9CCAKYtNt43rpSbFQK3Qvl&#038;id=100057372733042\" data-width=\"552\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writing tips below are mostly reasonable. I\u2019m contesting the advice that turning means the same thing as turning around. I loved helping students with application essays come to understand that they didn\u2019t need \u201cI think.\u201d The whole essay was supposed to show their thinking. Unfortunately the color contrast here is awful\u2014yellow text on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[552,600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a11y","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-5lB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20561,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559\/revisions\/20561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}