Enhancing Accessibility and Optimizing SEO
When it comes to building web applications, we cannot disregard how important it is to ensure the applications are accessible to all users. By empowering those who rely on assistive technologies such as screen readers, we can further the impact our applications have. Not only does making an application available to a wider audience bring in more users, but it can also affect Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Therefore, it would be negligent to disregard how SvelteKit can help us make our applications accessible from the start.
To understand how we can best empower our users and how doing so can help boost our SEO, we should examine a few concepts. Firstly, we’ll see how the built-in compile-time checks can improve the accessibility of our application with little configuration on our end. We’ll also see how to best announce route changes, which can benefit tools such as screen readers. We’ll then briefly cover a few...