Over a decade ago, I acquired the domain DigitalA11Y and began writing articles for the blog. However, it wasn’t until 2019 that I took the blog seriously. At that time, I was undergoing dialysis and needed something to focus my energy on during my free time. While working part-time, I penned my thoughts on accessibility…
Recently, while going through my LinkedIn feed, I came across a list of resources for designing for neurodiversity and decided to share it here with a wider group. As someone who posts on social media, I realized that whatever we share or create on social platforms has a short lifespan and is also hard to…
When WCAG 2.1 came out in 2018, it introduced a new success criterion namely 1.3.5 – Identify Input Purpose. It aims to ease the auto-fill capability of browsers and other assistive technologies when web sites and apps ask the users to fill out personal information. One of the sufficient techniques suggested to test for the…
An element that represents a specific point in time. Description An element that represents a specific point in time. NOTE: At the present time, there are no WAI-ARIA properties corresponding to the datetime attribute supported on <time> in [HTML]. The addition of this property will be considered for ARIA version 1.3. Authors SHOULD limit text contents to a valid date- or time-related string,…
A section whose content represents a fragment of computer code. Description A section whose content represents a fragment of computer code. The primary purpose of the code role is to inform assistive technologies that the content is computer code and thus may require special presentation, in particular with respect to synthesized speech. More specifically, screen…
An insertion contains content that is marked as added or content that is being suggested for addition. Description An insertion contains content that is marked as added or content that is being suggested for addition. Insertions are typically used to either mark differences between two versions of content or to designate content suggested for addition…
