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31.12.2025 07:10 A practical guide to reading the HTML Living Standard to check where elements can be used and what they are allowed to contain.

29.12.2025 23:11 HTML content categories define where elements can appear and what they’re allowed to contain with a clear, rules-based approach that improves validity, accessibility, and maintainability.

29.12.2025 02:50 How people with low vision adjust system settings, browsers, and apps. Six key categories designers and developers should understand.

28.12.2025 05:50 Tests to determine how CSS generated content alternative text is exposed to assistive technologies.

27.12.2025 08:30 Eight quick things to rememer when using aria-owns including what it is, when to use it and when not to use it.

21.12.2025 14:20 Why adding role=button to a native button has no effect, how the specification defines this behaviour, and what it teaches us about when ARIA should and shouldn’t be used.

20.12.2025 16:40 Some ARIA roles replace native HTML structure and remove child semantics. Learn how this works, why it happens, and when child roles must be explicitly defined.

20.12.2025 06:10 A series of tests to determine how hidden content is used by aria-labelledby and aria-describedby.

18.12.2025 01:50 This article explores a single example to show why they don’t always behave the way you might expect. In fact, we are going to look at one specific vehicle type - motor scooters.

17.12.2025 04:10 How aria-labelledby works, including naming precedence, multiple references, hidden content, broken IDs, and shadow DOM boundaries.

16.12.2025 18:11 If a header sits inside another landmark, it should be defined as generic, but Chrome defines it as sectionHeading - is this wrong?

12.12.2025 18:31 A plain English translation of the specification, so you can clearly see which elements are treated as hidden and which ones still count toward the accessible name.

11.12.2025 21:51 With a few lines of JavaScript, you can highlight headings, outline landmarks, check image alternatives, inspect accessible names, and much more — on any page.

11.12.2025 00:50 A screen reader cannot interact with the shadow DOM unless the browser exposes the internal elements that users can actually operate. To make this work, browsers flatten the shadow tree when building the accessibility tree.

10.12.2025 04:01 Learn how browsers build accessible names using the idea of an accumulated text bucket, and why some naming rules empty and replace it.