HTML - Accessibility Part 5

Instructors: Jess, Carmen, and Eda

Accessibility

Before this session, please:

• Complete Build a Multimedia Player solo over the next few days
• Read HTML Accessibility Review and take notes
• Complete HTML Accessibility Quiz solo to test your understanding
• Read HTML Review and take notes

During this session, we’ll:

• We’ll talk through Build a Multimedia Player to help prepare you to complete this lab solo
• Review notes
• Review notes

After this session, please:

Instructor notes

Build a Multimedia Player

We’ll take a look at this lab that focuses on working with audio and video elements!

HTML Accessibility Review

We’ve gone through a lot of topics to make our websites more accessible. Some of the topics we’ve looked at so far include:

• WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
• Assistive technologies for accessibility (Screen readers, large text or Braille keyboards, screen magnifiers, alternative pointing devices, voice recognition tools)
• Accessibility auditing tools (Google Lighthouse, WAVE, IBM Equal Accessibility Checker)
• Best practices for making our websites more accessible
• WAI-ARIA, Roles, and Attributes

HTML Review

We’ve gone through four units in our exploration of HTML:

• Basic HTML (Identifiers and Grouping, Special Characters and Linking, Boilerplate and Encoding, SEO and Social Sharing, Media Elements and Optimization, Multimedia Integration, Paths and Link Behavior)
• Semantic HTML (Importance of Semantic HTML, Semantic HTML Elements)
• Forms and Tables (HTML Form Elements and Attributes, Working with HTML Table Elements and Attributes, HTML Tools)
• Accessibility (Assistive Technology for Accessibility, Accessibility Auditing Tools, Accessibility Best Practices, WAI-ARIA, Roles, and Attributes)