Core Attributes

  • Programmatic Access to Accessibility Information

    By Sarah Horton and David Sloan — Visual user interface characteristics enable perception and understanding of content and the operation of functionality. A control may look like a button because of its shape and border and the presence of a text label or icon within the control. But this visual… continue reading


  • Content and functionality must be machine readable.

    By Makoto Ueki — An important keyword for making digital content more accessible is “machine readability.” In this context, “machine” means the user agents such as browsers, assistive technologies like screen readers, search robots, and so on. Take a website, as an example. A web page has several headings: a… continue reading