Development

What can I do as developer?

The designers have things to do to make a page more accessible. So do you! But you're just one part of a team. Everyone within your team has to work on this task.

On the following pages you’ll gain some insights into what you, as a developer, have to think about when coding a page. Remember: This is just a 101, an introduction to accessibility if you will. There is so much to do. But we'll need a starting point. This is it.

Semantics

Nowadays developers tend to use fancy frameworks that make it really easy to create a page. Unfortunately these developers don’t often know the very basics, i.e. semantically correct HTML. But properly laid out markup will help accessibility tremendously. In the following steps we’ll have a look at what good and bad markup does to aid or hamper accessibility.