Baldur Bjarnason
“Adactio: Links—5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day by Holly Tuke” adactio.com/links/17512
Five pieces of low-hanging fruit:
- Unlabelled links and buttons
- No image descriptions
- Poor use of headings
- Inaccessible web forms
- Auto-playing audio and video
“Adactio: Links—5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day by Holly Tuke” adactio.com/links/17512
There’s a new meta tag on the block. This time it’s for allowing system-level text sizing to apply to your website.
I like the idea of adding this to personal websites:
Mastodon shows an “Alt” button in the bottom right of images that have associated alt text. This button, when clicked, shows the alt text the author has written for the image.
I heard you like divs…
So my observation is that 80% of the subject of accessibility consists of fairly simple basics that can probably be learnt in 20% of the time available. The remaining 20% are the difficult situations, edge cases, assistive technology support gaps and corners of specialised knowledge, but these are extrapolated to 100% of the subject, giving it a bad, anxiety-inducing and difficult reputation overall.
Manu’s book is available to pre-order now. I’ve had a sneak peek and I highly recommend it!
You’ll learn how to build common patterns written accessibly in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You’ll also start to understand how good and bad practices affect people, especially those with disabilities.
Here’s how I interpret the top-level guidance in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
When it comes to sustainable web design, the hard work is invisible.
Business, sustainability, and inclusivity.
Separate your concerns.
Can you have too much semantics?