Why do semantics matter? -- #A11ycasts 08

It's easy to overlook the importance of semantics in web development. After all, a div and a section tag all render the same, right? But in the world of accessibility semantics are extremely important. Today on the show we'll cover how proper semantics let you express the affordances for your UIs, and I'll explain how those affordances get transformed into the accessibility tree. If you've ever wondered HOW a screen reader turns a bunch of HTML into a spoken UI then you'll definitely enjoy today's episode :)

[karlitowhoelse]

Great work on the functionality, by bringing it to the forefront of the Inspector it will make it much harder for developers to be as dismissive about accessibility concerns as we have generally tended to be.

[zeinabkamel]

Great Video, Thanks a lot. I just have a question, is there a way I could possibly override some of the things that get to be said anyway regardless of what I wrote. i.e "You are Currently inside the html element ?

[YageSpirit]

I noticed that Angular 1.6.x seems to interfere with some of the aria attributes work in Bootstrap 4.0 Alpha. I am guessing that I will need to work on things like UI Bootstrap did since the CSS framework changed hooks.

[ayeshab]

Thank you! Very helpful and easy to understand for beginners.

[rasingangi]

I wonder...What is the latest version for Chrome for Android?(lollipop 5.02)

[neilosman]

Also use chrome://accessibility/ to inspect the a11y tree

[LaloHao]

Thanks for the teapot reference, reminded me of FP

[puphuc]

The unicorn head is reallly distracting :))))

[chandlerzhu]

I hope chrome has a built-in screen reader someday

[dmitriysmirnov]

Watching this in 2020 and it's strange to see G+, haha

[fredbcarneiro]

What a amazing thing to do with websites! Thank you for the insight.

[thiruppathimuthukumar]

Dint know any the a11y section in dev tools.. it's cool.. thanks

[sneto_dev_br]

cool, it's a very important subject. thx

[Gettomix]

what is the point in taking care of accessability? is there really a need? i mean.. great that there is the opportunity to support such.. but why?