{"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&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/06\/teaching-redundant-writing-tips-or-digital-accessibility-example-you-decide\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/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}]}}