Global Accessibility Awareness Day, also known as GAAD has been celebrated since 2012 on the third Thursday in the month of May every year by all the accessibility professionals, accessibility enthusiasts, accessibility advocates in and around the globe. Founded by Jo Devon and Jenison Asuncion, GAAD aims to bring digital accessibility awareness and disrupt the…
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…
A nameless container element that has no semantic meaning on its own. Description A nameless container element that has no semantic meaning on its own. The generic role is intended for use as the implicit role of generic elements in host languages (such as HTML div or span), so is primarily for implementors of user agents. Authors SHOULD NOT use this role in content. Authors MAY use presentation or none to remove implicit…
