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  • 🤯 150 Articles to Satisfy Your Curiosity
    5 projects | dev.to | 13 Mar 2024
    Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal (https://pa11y.org/) by Rowan Manning
  • Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2023
    And educate himself just a tiny little bit? ;)

    Then in his next web project, he just might use https://github.com/pa11y/pa11y and make the world a better place!

  • Building Accessible Web Experiences: A Checklist for Frontend Developers
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Sep 2023
    Pages should have descriptive titles. Make use of tag. Not just for accessibility reasons, its one of the key tools to improve your SEO.
  • iFrames should have descriptive titles. iFrame is basically a page within a page, same rule applies for it too.
  • tag should have lang attribute. It helps screen readers to use correct pronunciation. If parts of your website use different languages, add lang attribute to respective elements as well.
  • Roles: ARIA roles define the type of element and its purpose. Roles can be used to indicate whether an element is a button, link, menu, dialog, or other interactive components. For example, role="button" can be added to a
    element to convey that it functions as a button.
  • Labels. Interactive elements should have accessible name inside aria-label
  • Element semantics should not be inappropriately suppressed with aria-hidden. Avoid hiding elements from accessibility tree; If required, use CSS styles to make element invisible by changing opacity or visibility.
  • Images should have alt attribute. Have you ever been stuck with slow connection and faced a white square wonder what's that supposed to be? Add an alt attribute so the images could be easily identified by text readers.
  • Useful tools

    Going through all those checkpoints might be overwhelming, and indeed, the larger your webpage or application is, the more effort it will take to find and address them.

    There are, luckily excellent tools that can jumpstart the process.

    • WAVE: A free online tool that provides visual feedback about the accessibility of your web content, highlighting potential issues and offering suggestions for improvement.
    • axe DevTools: An accessibility testing extension for Google Chrome and Firefox that can be used directly within the browser's developer tools.
    • Pa11y: An open-source automated accessibility testing tool that you can run from the command line or integrate into your CI/CD pipeline.
    • Lighthouse Accessibility Audit: Excellent for a quick accessibility insight, Lighthouse is available with Google Chrome dev tools and checks highlight opportunities to improve the accessibility of your web app.

    Remember that automated tools are valuable for identifying many common accessibility issues, but manual testing is often necessary to fully understand and address the user experience for people with disabilities. A combination of automated and manual testing, along with a commitment to ongoing accessibility, is key to maintaining an accessible web presence.

    Happy coding!

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  • Creating an Accessible Web for Everyone with Anuradha on Girl Code Coffee Chat #9
    1 project | dev.to | 6 Jul 2023
    Pa11y
  • Como adicionar recursos de acessibilidade em um site?
    2 projects | /r/brdev | 12 May 2023
  • Code optimisation for accessibility
    1 project | /r/GPT3 | 3 Apr 2023
  • Automated Accessibility Part 3: Regression Tests
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2023
    Automated libraries such as axe-core and pA11y have been a very seamless way to bring accessibility testing into development teams UI testing. It can get development teams to begin to learn and grow accessibility in their teams. However, one big problem has appeared since the rise in popularity of these libraries.
  • Como vocês geram métricas de acessibilidade?
    1 project | /r/brdev | 24 Feb 2023
  • A Practical Approach to Automated Accessibility
    4 projects | dev.to | 14 Feb 2023
    PA11y - It runs accessibility tests on your pages via the command line or Node.js, so you can automate your testing process
  • About a11y in general
    2 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2023
    https://github.com/pa11y/pa11y - Tool for testing ally using node.js (it also has integration with Cypress).
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