There are still some myths out there about what we can and can not do and there are also some best practices around use of headings. Please do use them is my advice, but it is not a thing for compliance and SEO itself. It is more about usability.
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I wanted to expose sweet points from the Making Facebook.com accessible to as many people as possible article that was published on 30th of July 2020 as it is an excellent example of continuous and from-start accessibility in my opinion and we should all implement at least some parts of it in our work-flows.
No, PDF is not accessible out of box, sorry to say. How to make it accessible then – an introduction
I believe all users should have the focus outline visible, but not everybody agrees with me. And there is a new CSS pseudo selector on the horizon – :focus-visible that is somehow connected.
Relying on semantic text highlighting alone can be dangerous as screen readers use to ignore special emphasizing tags to prevent clutter to their users.
It is interesting to compare accessibility errors from a million of popular websites and see if and how are they improving or deteriorating compared to previous year.
I use zoom as well, and it is a perfect example of accessibility feature that is beneficial for everyone, especially in this demographics with population getting older and older…
Sometimes a short checklist is all we need to get our minds set and that we do not forget about important things. This is my short(er) version for designers and developers…
My reflections on the process. And yes – testing early is a requirement. Developers should also use screen-readers to test their components, templates etc.
User agents are sometimes going beyond their own guidelines and helping to improve accessibility with smart accessible defaults.
Web accessibility iniative on testing – valuable resource with a short reflection from me