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Here I was, thinking the machines would make our lives easier. Now we have to make our websites Reader-Mode friendly, ARIA[1]-labelled, rendered server-side and
by knallfrosch 2y ago
Here I was, thinking the machines would make our lives easier. Now we have to make our websites Reader-Mode friendly, ARIA[1]-labelled, rendered server-side and now semantic web on top, just so that bots and non-visitors can crawl around?
[1] This is also something the screen assist software should do, not the publisher.
- MrVandemar 2y agoARIA is something that really shouldn't have been necessary, but today it is absolutely crucial that content publishers make sure is right. Because the screen assist software can't do it. Why? Because a significant percentage of people working on web development think a webpage is composed as many <spans> and <divs> as you like, styled with CSS and the content is injected into it with JavaScript. These people don't know what an <img> tag is, let alone alt-text, or semantic heading hierarchy. And yet, those are exactly the things that Screen Reader software understands.