Web accessibility is important because it enables people who have different forms of disabilities and limitations to access the web. As a website owner or builder, it’s good to be aware of the tools that you can use to keep your website compliant with the web accessibility laws and policies of your region.
It might surprise you to learn that your favorite brands have been sued for accessibility law violations and not being equal for people with disabilities.
With advances in technology, automated web accessibility solutions will fix accessibility errors faster and provide remediation with little need for human expert involvement. But for now, the best automated solutions to use are those that assure that human experts oversee the work done on your site.
It’s very beneficial to go through a well-structured curriculum. And this is what web accessibility certification programs provide — a comprehensive set of modules and lessons curated to give students a proper foundation in web accessibility.
Whether you’re using static HTML or a content management system, adding alt attributes to your images is of great importance. And the best part is that by adding alt attributes, you solve for many users and use cases.
The web at its full potential! That has been the goal of the W3C for many years. Through the development of the WCAG 3.0 working draft by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), the W3C is one step closer to realizing that dream.
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