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Future-proofing your accessibility efforts
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Your future self, coworkers, and most importantly customers and clients will thank you for developing with accessibility in mind.
Tech debt goes down when accessibility goes up
The best way to future proof your accessibility efforts is to ensure websites and applications are built with a foundation in proper HTML semantics. We can help ensure we are future-proofing our project by following two rules from Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG): Parsing and Name, Role, Value.
Following these rules has the bonus value of better supporting current and future browsers and other user agents, while additionally ensuring assistive technologies (AT) such as screen readers will be more likely to correctly interpret the content of our projects.
Breaking down the rules
Let’s define the WCAG rules and look at some quick tips to help follow them.
4.1.1 Parsing
Following this rule helps ensure that browsers and AT will be able to correctly interpret your web interface without complications from poorly-structured markup.
- The W3C Nu HTML Checker can help you locate errors in your source or rendered markup. Any reported validation can be corrected, which will help decrease the likelihood of ATs incorrectly parsing your [...]