With the recent news that Microsoft Edge now has 100% accessibility support for HTML5, this post looks at what “accessibility supported” means, and where it fits into the bigger accessibility picture.
Accessibility comes in many forms and all of them are important. For the purposes of this post however, the term “accessibility” is used to mean the ability of an assistive technology like a speech recognition tool or screen magnifier to access content in the browser.
For a feature of HTML (or any other web technology) to be considered accessible, three things have to happen:
