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Mastering Web Accessibility: A Guide for Frontend Developers

Busayo Samuel on April 11, 2023

Table of Contents I. Introduction II. What is web accessibility? III. Why is web accessibility important? IV. How to create web-acces...
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John

Good overview of the main pieces of accessibility for the web. One more thing though. WCAG versions and which ones to use for types of sites. For example, most sites I've built fall under WCAG 2.x AA. The only websites I've seen needing AAA are government websites because those services need to be 100% accessible.

Side note: It baffles me how many times I see part of a website not meet the contrast criteria. Make sure you check the ratios of the mockups you get.

Also, a11y has an awesome checklist to run through: a11yproject.com/checklist/

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Michael Tharrington

This is a great guide, thanks for sharing! 🙌

Heads up that you might consider editing your post and switching out one of your other tags for the #a11y (accessibility) tag.

#a11y

the practice of making your website usable by as many people as possible

You definitely don't have to, but I think this tag would be a great fit for your post here.

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Busayo Samuel

Thanks you so much, I'll include the tag.

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Sergey Leschev

Web accessibility is an important consideration for frontend developers. Using semantic HTML, providing text alternatives, and using accessible colors and contrast are all key factors in making websites more inclusive to all users, regardless of their abilities or disabilities. We also prioritize web accessibility when building projects to ensure that our digital content is accessible to everyone who interacts with it.

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Femi Akinyemi

This is a great post. Thanks for sharing

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Busayo Samuel

Thank youuu!!!

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TriumphantCode

This was helpful thank you 👏

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Fernanda Michetti

I've been really interested in web accessibility and this guide summons up the basics amazingly!

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CareersArabia

Informative and interesting article.

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Peter Galiba • Edited

To improve the accessibility of links do not use labels like "here" for them, like you did in the testing section, but a more descriptive one for example:
"Learn more about NVDA."

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Busayo Samuel

Oh thank you, will do that

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Konstantin Rouda

Regarding Use ARIA attributes part.
The first rule of ARIA states Don't use ARIA.
For more info you might be interested in reading the following article.
5 Rules of ARIA

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Busayo Samuel

Thank you😀, will include this in the article

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Nir

Nice! article. I have also published one article and channel last month for social cause and for our dev community but, didn't receive much response though. Sharing link here if found useful.

Bridging the gap developer friendly approach for WCAG

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Busayo Samuel

Thank you, I'll check out your article.