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Accessibility and Real-time Apps: Clearing Fog and Picking Fruit

What's this blog post about?

In this text, Nolan Darilek discusses how to make LiveBeats, a reference Phoenix LiveView app with real-time social features, more accessible for screen reader users. He covers the importance of labels and roles in accessibility, as well as the use of attributes such as alt, aria-label, and aria-hidden. Additionally, he highlights some common mistakes developers make when implementing accessibility features, including misusing role="menu" and using role="application." The text also mentions Fly.io, a platform that can deploy web apps in minutes on its global server network.

Company
Fly.io

Date published
April 25, 2022

Author(s)
Nolan Darilek

Word count
1720

Hacker News points
12

Language
English


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