🏳️🌈 Inclusivity and HTML
It’s June tomorrow, which means the beginning of Pride Month; a time to celebrate how far we’ve come with civil rights, but a reminder that we still have a long way to go. Not Pride related, but definitely about inclusivity, here are the articles I wrote for you in May:
From the archives
HTML is great. ARIA can be handy too. But it bears repeating that semantic HTML does almost all the accessibility heavy lifting without a single ARIA attribute or line of JavaScript. Last year, I wrote about the case of a bunch of unnecessary code being used on a href-less <a> element, where just adding the href attribute would have done all that work automatically.
Elsewhere on the web
Here are some more interesting articles from around the web that I read during May:
- Additional “assistance”, where it’s explained how, with the best intentions, we can overcomplicate simple things for the benefit of pretty much nobody
- Please, stop disabling zoom – friends don’t let friends disable pinch-to-zoom on their websites!
- Toilets – a really good example of when well intentioned but under-informed able people design for disabled people
- Divs are bad! – The
<div>element has no semantic meaning, but that doesn’t mean it can be used just any old place - A preview of new accessibility features coming from Apple
Anyway, I hope you manage to get out and join your local Pride celebrations! See you again at the end of June 🌈