Some old browser engines don't fully support hyphenation, so they need
some extra help. Now, the entire site should fit in a 150 CSS-pixel wide
viewport.
Clean up some link text too so the text alone is more useful.
- Shrink some excessive alt text
- Remove some redundant links
- Screenreaders that split elements up aren't just on touchscreens
- Mention ChromeVox in list of screen readers
- Move TOC higher in page
- Spelling
- Drop more unused classes
- Replace hashes in code snippets with variables for screen-readability
- Use hyphens where valid instead of combined words for screen reader
pronunciation
- Typo
- Add WIP section on screen reader support tips not already covered.
- New section on in-page search
- Mention most alt search indexes don't support JS
- Background images bad
- More sample tests: word processors that support HTML
- Mention checking privacy policies for 3p content
- Elaborate on more mainstream examples of color overrides
- Link to CSS WG docs instead of MDN for prefers-contrast since they're
more detailed.
- Specify that I'm just removing margins in <figure> elements for
quotations.
- Add quote describing how blind readers struggle to find non-semantic context
- Mention that longdesc is deprecated by simple hyperlinks. Describe an alternative.
- Transcripts are necessary for machine translation
- Improve alt-text used alongside an image transcript
- Re-phrase a line referring to a previous section; after some
re-arrangements, that section is no longer a "previous" section.
- Replace spatial terminology ("bottom") with sequential terminology
("end")
- Add note on font enumeration without the Font Access API
- Acknowledge testing in grayscale but emphasize that it isn't enough.
- Move defense of link underlines to just after the section on custom
colors, since it's more relevant to it.
- Add xkcd image into the page instead of just linking, since the linked
page content is an image that doesn't include a transcript or
descriptive alt-text.
- Trivial rephrasings
- Make sure that headings don't have the same name as any links, to
avoid creating links with similar names but different purposes
- Remove useless <aside> elements that wrap landmarks.
- Move TOC down a bit, after the intro.
- Elaborate on each image optimization tool
- Mention using GNU Parallel or squoosh.app
- Describe libavif with libaom+butteraugli and the YUV400 color space
- Why you should avoid srcsets based on viewport or display properties
- Fix code snippet for <picture> sample
Threw in some formatting and very minor phrasing fixes.
- Elaborate on how contrast needs to be maintained under different
conditions like different screens, gamma adjustments, and color
blindnesses
- Add my skepticism about progressive decoding.
- Describe how to calculate intrinsic side to avoid layout-shifts caused
by CSS Containment
- Mention use of relative font sizes.
- Replace incorrect use of the word "inline" when describing images.
- Cite WAI more
- Mention merit of dark image variants
- Fix shitty ARIA
- use a <dl> list in one place.
- Describe use of `prefers-contrast: less`
- Narrow screen fixes.
- Give the intro a heading
- Make the preface an <aside> with a "doc-preface" DPUB-ARIA role
- Move the TOC before the intro
- Give the TOC a "doc-toc" DPUB-ARIA role
- Provide a TLDR
- Mention that captions can be repositioned relative to figure content
- Edit my captions in light of that fact
- Add unformatted/plain-text agents to "future work"
- Lowercase a heading
Describe how to best include images and figures in a way that flows well
and is accessible to both sighted and non-sighted users.
Describe how sticky elements can be a usability hazard on short
viewports
- Add changefreq
- Clean up structured data for quotations
- Add more sample unorthodox tests
TODO: dark image variant of image in new "Beyond alt-text" section
