Best Practices for Common HTML Accessibility Issues
The Best Practices and Advice sections that follow are organized into categories around the primary stumbling points to achieving accessibility encountered by instructional designers—and confronted more directly by students with disabilities:
- Course Organization and Navigation
- Content Layout and Styling
- Content Markup and Organization: Headings, Lists, and Links
- Images, Charts, and Other Graphics
- Data Tables
- Forms
For each category we provide a short general discussion, followed by a set of Best Practices (for HTML content) and Advice (for dynamic, multimedia, and non-HTML content), each of which includes discussion or illustration of pertinent accessibility issues and, where appropriate, provides code and implementation examples. If understood and followed, these Best Practices and Advice can push educational content toward greater accessibility through application of UD principles.