Explore essential guidelines and tools cultivated to assist individuals and developer teams create inclusive digital experiences and enhance accessibility in web and app development. Description: The Northeastern Digital Accessibility team provides essential resources on how to make digital content more accessible. This learning path provides guidelines on essential accessibility considerations for developers. Topics include applying logical order of content, ensuring content and formatting elements are properly tagged, working with CSS, and properly using descriptive text. Each section also includes essential code examples. Part 1: Identifiable Topics covered:

Logical content and page structure.

How to label form elements and interactive content.

Appropriate markup for data tables.

Best practices for use of sensory characteristics.

How to identify linked content formats.

Resources.

Begin Part 1 on-demand now > Part 2: Usable Topics covered:

How to offer skip links.

Responsive design and logical order.

Pointer and touch target tags.

Web content accessibility testing.

Using device-independent code .

New content alerts.

Flashing content.

Accessibility overlays.

Resources.

Begin Part 2 on-demand now > Part 3: Media Alternatives Topics covered:

Appropriate alternatives for images.

Captions or Transcriptions.

Audio Descriptions.

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