Baldur Bjarnason
“Adactio: Links—Skipping skip links ⚒ Nerd” adactio.com/links/17899
Vasilis offers some research that counters this proposal.
It makes much more sense to start each page with the content people expect on that page. Right? And if you really need navigation (which is terribly overrated if you ask me) you can add it in the footer. Which is the correct place for metadata anyway.
That’s what I’ve done on The Session.
“Adactio: Links—Skipping skip links ⚒ Nerd” adactio.com/links/17899
This is such a brilliant idea! Why not allow an img element inside video element in order to provide a responsive, accessible poster image?
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.
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?