Quick Tip: Define the main region The <main> element or ARIA role=”main” can be used to identify the main content area of a web page. The WebAIM Million analysis found that only 23.5% of home pages had the main region/landmark identified, compared to over 50% of home pages that defined… Continue Reading Web Accessibility Tip – August 2019
Quick Tip: ARIA Design Patterns The unfortunate reality is that ARIA is often implemented incorrectly. This can easily make accessibility much worse. The WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 provides practical guidance for implementing ARIA correctly. The Design Patterns section gives clear instructions and examples for a wide variety of application widgets.… Continue Reading Web Accessibility Tip for July 2019
In an article recently published by WebAIM, 98% of a sample of nonprofit homepages contained WCAG conformance failures that were automatically detected by WebAIM’s accessibility tools. The results come from a study, The WebAIM Million – an accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages, conducted by WebAIM earlier this… Continue Reading Nonprofit websites often fail accessibility