HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
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Re: HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
#2> The reversed attribute is used to reverse ordered lists () in the opposite order.
Holy shit that’s been a thing for ten years and I didn’t know about it??
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#3No mentioning of semantic tags. I personally think things like and are way more practically usful for accessibility these days. Many screen readers have a "jump to main" shortcut these days (which is a great replacement for those notorious "skip to content" links). If only more sites would use these tags.
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#4> The reversed attribute is used to reverse ordered lists ( ) in the opposite order. Holy shit that’s been a thing for ten years and I didn’t know about it??
Well, IE and EdgeHTML never supported it, so in practice it’s only been safe to use for twoish years.
(I’d actually completely forgotten it was a recent addition rather than from the pre-HTML-5 era.)
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#5No mentioning of semantic tags. I personally think things like and are way more practically usful for accessibility these days. Many screen readers have a "jump to main" shortcut these days (which is a great replacement for those notorious "skip to content" links). If only more sites would use these tags.
I don’t think jump to main can replace a skip to content link because screen readers aren’t often used by people who are sighted but aren’t able to use a mouse. Skip nav still helps them bypass the repetitive heading content.
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#6> The reversed attribute is used to reverse ordered lists ( ) in the opposite order. Holy shit that’s been a thing for ten years and I didn’t know about it??
> > > The reversed attribute is used to reverse ordered lists () in the opposite order.
To be clear, it only makes the numbers descending rather than ascending. The phrasing above implies it rearranges the list.
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#7How does hreflang improve accessibility and user experience?
The article says "You can improve the user experience" with it, but never actually demonstrates that. It then starts talking about some SEO stuff, but it's still not super clear what it actually does?
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#8> The reversed attribute is used to reverse ordered lists ( ) in the opposite order. Holy shit that’s been a thing for ten years and I didn’t know about it??
> > > The reversed attribute is used to reverse ordered lists ( ) in the opposite order. To be clear, it only makes the numbers descending rather than ascending. The phrasing above implies it rearranges the list.
Yeah the behavior was completely counter intuitive to what I was expecting. It does make sense though since it would be kinda weird if an HTML attribute could change the structure of mark up directly, at least I realized that after thinking about it.
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#9How does hreflang improve accessibility and user experience? The article says "You can improve the user experience" with it, but never actually demonstrates that. It then starts talking about some SEO stuff, but it's still not super clear what it actually does?
It doesn't improve my life, at all.
When I have questions about a concept and I use the english word for it (because I never learned CS in French and would not understand the French page), the first Wikipedia page will still be in French, because of those shitty tags. Honestly, those are only useful if the words are the same in multiple languages.
As for me, this recent changes get on my nerves, and are one reason why I'm not using Google anymore.
Re: HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
#10How does hreflang improve accessibility and user experience? The article says "You can improve the user experience" with it, but never actually demonstrates that. It then starts talking about some SEO stuff, but it's still not super clear what it actually does?
It doesn't improve my life, at all. When I have questions about a concept and I use the english word for it (because I never learned CS in French and would not understand the French page), the first Wikipedia page will still be in French, because of those shitty tags. Honestly, those are only useful if the words are the same in multiple languages. As for me, this recent changes get on my nerves, and are one reason wh…
Is it because of those tags? Or is it just because Google on its own has done a comprehensive job of indexing and incorrectly thought you wanted the French version?