WAVE Empty Link

Empty Link – example

Summary: Real world example on the Empty Link Error. You can review what this means technically and the impact inside of our Icon dictionary. Today I am only looking at this from the perspective of a common Empty Link found on a higher ed website from our Higher Ed in 4k project. Example Icons flagged…

WAVE linked image missing alternative text results

Linked image missing alternative text – example

Summary: Real world example on the Linked image missing alternative text Error and the Redundant link Alert. You can review what this means technically and the impact inside of our Icon dictionary for the linked image missing alternative text Error and for the redundant link Alert. Today I am only looking at this from the…

WAVE Tips

With the new version of WAVE launching, I thought it would be a good time to share some tips and features of WAVE that I use all the time. WAVE was my gateway to learning about web accessibility. As a front end developer who was never trained in web accessibility, it was a great tool…

Angular, Accessibility, and You

The motivation behind this post is that technical resources for implementing accessibility techniques, especially with modern Javascript frameworks like Angular, are very sparse. There also seems to be a misconception that modern Javascript frameworks impede your ability to make your web application accessible. While there are some accessibility pitfalls involved in using frameworks like Angular,…