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What is one of the most commonly missed opportunities you've seen that a web dev can make use of to improve website accessibility? Also, if you could give other devs a list of top 3 pointers to think of when working on web accessibility, what would you list?
The biggest missed opportunity I've seen is when developers fail to use correct semantic HTML elements. If you have a button in your UI, use the <button> element! All too often we see people attaching click handlers to <span> and <div> elements or overriding the href attribute on an <a> link. When you use the correct semantic elements, you get a whole bunch of accessibility features built right in by default.
I'm a friendly non-developer from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife, our 2 cats, and greyhound. (he/him)
Thanks so much for this thorough reply and apologies for this delayed response. Really appreciate you sharing this advice — the missed <button> mistake def sounds like a missed opportunity!
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What is one of the most commonly missed opportunities you've seen that a web dev can make use of to improve website accessibility? Also, if you could give other devs a list of top 3 pointers to think of when working on web accessibility, what would you list?
The biggest missed opportunity I've seen is when developers fail to use correct semantic HTML elements. If you have a button in your UI, use the
<button>
element! All too often we see people attaching click handlers to<span>
and<div>
elements or overriding thehref
attribute on an<a>
link. When you use the correct semantic elements, you get a whole bunch of accessibility features built right in by default.For other pointers:
Thanks so much for this thorough reply and apologies for this delayed response. Really appreciate you sharing this advice — the missed
<button>
mistake def sounds like a missed opportunity!