2024/Brighton/a11y
Accessibility in the Small Web was a session at IndieWebCamp Brighton 2024 primarily about accessibility for those who make personal websites.
Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/a11y
IndieWebCamp Brighton 2024
Session: Accessibility in the Small Web
When: 2024-03-09 15:00
Participants
Paul Watson
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Notes
The March 2024 IndieWeb Blog Carnival theme is "Accessibility in the Small Web", so...
@lazcorp's post on this subject - https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/complex-images
There is no limit of the length of 'alt' attribute text, but an overlong description is not appropriate. So for Complex Images you should also include a text description elsewhere in the HTML of the page.
Aria Descriptions for sections of a page - where should they go?
- Perhaps in a Table of Contents at the top?
HTML5 Landmarks - hardly used in practice
Accessibility testing tools:
- Lighthouse/PageSpeed Insights - https://pagespeed.web.dev/
- Polypane - dev browser - https://polypane.app/
- HTML Code Sniffer - https://squizlabs.github.io/HTML_CodeSniffer/
- Pa11y - https://pa11y.org/
- Axe - https://www.deque.com/axe/