Web development

Should You Use a PDF For That?

The PDF is among the most popular file types on the internet. Almost every computer or mobile device can open a PDF and authors of PDFs have a lot of control over what the end result will look like. But there are some significant drawbacks to the PDF. Companies who utilize this file type, particularly […]

How Will Machine Learning Affect Digital Accessibility?

Machine Learning will be incredibly important in the advancement of digital accessibility.  But what will that advancement look it?  And what can Machine Learning actually do for web and content accessibility?  Better, More Comprehensive Testing Automated testing is a powerful tool for web accessibility and many great tests already exist. WAVE is a good one […]

What is ARIA?

ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. You may also see it written WAI-ARIA, which stands for Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications. ARIA is a set of HTML attributes that let us add information to our elements to be used by assistive devices. Semantic HTML gives us some of this information but […]

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 […]

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