The Web Accessibility Initiative's Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA, or just ARIA) is a set of tools and guidelines for making web content and applications more accessible. Most notably, it includes a suite of attributes we can add to HTML elements to embed in them more semantic information that...

In one of my previous articles, Using Heading Elements to Create a Document Outline, I explained the importance of having valid outlines in an HTML page. The outline for an HTML document shows the structure of the content on the page. This is useful for user agents, who can use...

Blue Beanie Day (November 30th) is a day where web developers show support of web standards and accessibility by posting a selfie of themselves wearing a blue beanie. It was first instigated by Jeffrey Zeldman in 2006, who wrote a book about web standards and famously wears a blue beanie....

Building websites that are accessible can be challenging for developers like myself that have never had to use any assistive technologies. Unlike visual issues such as layout which can be easily seen, accessibility issues can very easily go unnoticed if we don't have the correct tools to test for them....

The most accessible format for any content on the web is plain text. Plain text is incredibly malleable, it can be altered in ways to cater to almost any disability. For users with no visual difficulties, they can simply read the text. If a user has visual impairments, the text...