Accessibility best practices

Common accessibility best practices.

Accessibilty can be improved by passing these tests:

  1. The document does not use <meta http-equiv="refresh">: Users do not expect a page to refresh automatically, and doing so will move focus back to the top of the page. This may create a frustrating or confusing experience.

  2. [user-scalable="no"] is not used in the <meta name="viewport"> element and the [maximum-scale] attribute is not less than 5: Disabling zooming is problematic for users with low vision who rely on screen magnification to properly see the contents of a web page.

  3. Touch targets do not have sufficient size or spacing: Touch targets with sufficient size and spacing help users who may have difficulty targeting small controls to activate the targets.

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