Web accessibility

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Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by both people with disabilities and people without disabilities. When a site is correctly designed, developed, and edited, all users have equal access to information and functionality.

Web accessibility should take the following into account:

• Visual: visual impairments, including blindness, color vision deficiency, and various forms of low vision
• Motor: difficulty using or inability to use the hands, due to reduced muscle speed or loss of muscle control from conditions such as Parkinson's disease, muscular disorders, cerebral palsy, and stroke
• Auditory: hearing impairments
• Seizures: epileptic seizures triggered by flashing effects or visual stroboscopic effects
• Cognitive: intellectual and developmental disabilities involving problems with problem-solving and reasoning ability, concentration, and memory, and learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc.)

See WAI-ARIA for details.

alt-text

Writing alt-text is an important task for improving accessibility for visually impaired people

Writing alt-text with LLMs

• Comparing alt-text generation for images using local LLMs | GeekNews
  • [Original] Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation | Dries Buytaert

See also

• HTML5
• Web standards
• Web accessibility
• WAI-ARIA

Favorite site

• Web accessibility - Wikipedia
• Web accessibility and WAI-ARIA :: Baemgyul Blog - HTML attrs starting with aria-.