Meaningful Reading Order: The Decisions That Matter
Making sure the order in which content is read by a screen reader or reached by keyboard matches the order that makes sense, whatever the visual layout. What is...
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Core Web Vitals, WCAG conformance and the audit trail that proves both.
Making sure the order in which content is read by a screen reader or reached by keyboard matches the order that makes sense, whatever the visual layout. What is...
Writing instructions that do not depend only on shape, size, color, position or sound, such as "click the round button" or "see the box on the right". The key f...
Letting content work in both portrait and landscape orientation rather than locking a website or app to one. Where most projects go wrong The usual mistakes: Me...
Identifying the purpose of form fields that collect personal information, such as name, email and address, so browsers and assistive tools can fill them in or s...
Giving people a way to pause, stop or turn down any audio that plays automatically on a page, such as background music or an autoplaying video with sound. At a...
Text presented inside an image, such as headlines baked into banners or quotes saved as graphics, instead of real text styled with CSS. What is at stake Text in...
The contrast of buttons, form field borders, icons, focus indicators and other visual elements needed to identify and use interface controls. The key figures WC...
Content that appears when the pointer hovers over or keyboard focus reaches an element, such as tooltips, popovers and hover menus. Where most projects go wrong...
Situations where keyboard focus enters a component, such as an embedded player, widget or modal, and cannot move out using the keyboard. Why does it matter? A k...
Keyboard shortcuts that use a single letter, number or symbol key, such as pressing J for next item, without a modifier like Ctrl or Alt. At a glance WCAG 2.1.4...
Time limits on tasks, such as sessions that expire, forms that time out and offers that reset, and how people are warned and given more time. What is at stake P...
The title element of each page, which names it in browser tabs, bookmarks, history and search results, and is the first thing a screen reader announces. The key...
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