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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.

The bad news: a handful of bugs is responsible for the majority of accessibility issues detected via automated tools. The good news: they are quite easy to avoid or fix!

You're adding the finishing touches to your portfolio site. Will it be ready to welcome all visitors? Let's check for the most common accessibility bugs. The only tools we'll need are HTML and CSS.

We've learned about the 6 most common accessibility bugs. Can we find 6 more? Will JavaScript be necessary this time? Let's learn where to look for them and how to avoid them.

In conversations about accessibility, the use of semantic HTML is most likely to be the first and most common piece of advice. This post looks at the role it plays in accessibility and beyond.

Buttons and links are fundamental elements in web design, each with distinct semantic meanings and accessibility implications. For accessibility, it's essential to use the appropriate element given the functionality you aim to implement. Let’s see how to use them!

It’s common for web developers to use HTML element and HTML tag interchangeably. But are they really the same thing? Or is there more than meets the eye? Let's decode this lingo!

CSS can play an active role in improving the accessibility of your website. Creating a skip link or adding a media query to account for reduced motion preferences are ways in which you can improve the experience for all users.

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.