What is accessibility?
When you create websites and apps that everyone, including people with disabilities, can easily navigate and understand, you make accessibility happen.
You are building your portfolio site. Will it be ready to welcome all visitors, including those with disabilities? Time to check!
Dive into the Accessibility 101 series and learn foundational concepts to help you build accessible websites.
Use the Your portfolio site guide to find and fix common accessibility issues.
Share your site and receive feedback on how to improve its accessibility. Use LinkedInor Bluesky to reach out.
When you create websites and apps that everyone, including people with disabilities, can easily navigate and understand, you make accessibility happen.
Users with certain disabilities rely on hardware and/or software to navigate the web. These tools, known as assistive technologies, help them interact with digital content in a way that suits their needs.
Take a peek behind the scenes! Learn about the DOM's smaller but powerful sibling, the accessibility tree, and how assistive technologies use it for accessibility.
Certain elements must have an accessible name, and it has to be descriptive enough to convey the element's purpose to the user. Let's find out how the browser computes this name.
You can press a button and get a list of accessibility issues on your site. You will certainly NOT catch all the bugs, but these tools are a great starting point. Let's see how they work and what they can do for you.
The bad news: a handful of bugs is responsible for most accessibility bugs detected via automated tools. The good news: they are quite easy to avoid or fix.