From the course: Simplifying Web Development with Accessibility Best Practices

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 25,600 courses taught by industry experts.

Designing accessible content hierarchies and flows

Designing accessible content hierarchies and flows - HTML Tutorial

From the course: Simplifying Web Development with Accessibility Best Practices

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Designing accessible content hierarchies and flows

“

- [Instructor] Almost all websites and applications are designed to communicate some form of information to the visitor and possibly get them to interact with something, maybe a video player, or a form, or a like button or something else. There's also a good chance there is a lot of information presented to the visitor all at once. A typical website has a header, at least one navigation area, a main content area, a sidebar, and a bunch of semi-related or unrelated content including related information, ads, social media links, et cetera, et cetera. To ensure the goal of the web page, that communication of information is successful the content hierarchy and flow becomes really important. People who communicate using languages read from left to right, top to bottom have a fairly consistent reading pattern we can design for. They start in the top left and then scan down the page in a sort of diagonal fashion, meaning they'll…

Contents