If you’re writing content for your website, you might be tempted to just use bold text to highlight your headings. After all, it accomplishes more or less the same thing, right? Not exactly. Here are some reasons why you should take the extra step of using actual HTML heading tags for your headings. […]
What is ePub 3?
What is an ePub? ePub is a dynamic, widely supported format for eBooks. The ePub format gained popularity over the years by offering a more flexible reading experience than other, more static formats like PDF. That’s because ePubs are actually made up of the same code that is used to create websites. ePub files are […]
What is WCAG 2.0?
What Does WCAG Stand For? If you’ve ever looked up ‘web accessibility’, chances are, you’ve come across WCAG, WCAG 2.0, or some variation of this. WCAG stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. WCAG 2.0 is the current working web accessibility standard. See, at the time of writing, there is no official standard for ADA compliance […]
What’s the Difference Between an eBook and an ePub?
First off, What’s an eBook? The term eBook is short for electronic book. The term refers to any book that is accessed on a digital device. That device could be an eBook reader, a mobile phone, a computer, or even a screen reader. eBooks come in a variety of different types—including the ePub type. Think […]
How Semantic HTML Tags Make Your Content Accessible
Web and Digital Content Accessibility Starts with HTML The HTML structure of a website is like a roadmap. It tells your browser where elements should go on the page and denotes the relationships of those elements with other resources, such as an external CSS stylesheet or external scripts. Just like a roadmap, your HTML can […]
What is Semantic HTML?
What exactly is Semantic HTML? Simply put, Semantic HTML refers to HTML code written using proper and descriptive tags—also known as, you guessed it, semantic tags. Instead of simply indicating the beginning of a new section or denoting which portion of a page will carry a certain tag or ID, semantic HTML tags tell us—and […]