It's been a minute since my last post and also since the last time I wrote Ruby for a living. After a five-month-or-so React Native binge, I'm back on the Rails, and wow, I literally typed const yesterday when defining a variable. By which I mean it's going great, how are you?
Recently in a meeting at my company, we were doing a retrospective — you know, the kind where you write "Start," "Stop," and "Keep" up on a board and everyone offers their thoughts on how we can improve moving forward. I raised my hand and asked, "Have we talked about accessibility lately?"
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One of the best and most meaningful features of HTML5 is its introduction of more “semantic” tags, or tags that help define the structure of a webpage. Tags like
section,
article,
footer,
nav, and
aside
are highly useful for improving the accessibility of a website for visually impaired users. They provide valuable information about your site to any screen readers that are processing it, allowing for easier browsing and less time wasted with repeated or irrelevant information.