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Making your page more accessible #2

Open zannain opened 6 years ago

zannain commented 6 years ago

Great work on incorporating the header and footer tag, these were introduced with HTML5. With the HTML5 update, there is a push for elements to be more descriptive. Before you would see a div for everything however with HTML5 more descriptive elements have been introduced such as header, footer but also tags such as section that makes more intuitive sense when breaking up your page. I encourage you to familiarize yourself with some of the elements that were introduced in HTML5 such as and as this makes your HTML more readable and showcases that you are up to date with the latest HTML5 specification. Using these elements takes advantage of the Application Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) built into HTML5 that make your web page more accessible for users that have visual or auditory impairments and make use of screen reader technology.

You can learn about some of the elements introduced with HTML5 at W3C

You can also validate your HTML by running it through W3C's validator