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Enduring CSS

You're reading from   Enduring CSS Create robust and scalable CSS for any size web project

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282803
Length 134 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ben Frain Ben Frain
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Writing Styles for Rapidly Changing, Long-lived Projects FREE CHAPTER 2. The Problems of CSS at Scale 3. Implementing Received Wisdom 4. Introducing the ECSS Methodology 5. File Organisation and Naming Conventions 6. Dealing with State Changes in ECSS 7. Applying ECSS to Your Website or Application 8. The Ten Commandments of Sane Style Sheets 9. Tooling for an ECSS Approach 1. CSS Selector Performance 2. Browser Representatives on CSS Performance

Switching to WAI-ARIA

However, having researched ARIA a little for another book, (Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 in case you are interested) it struck me that if this information has to go in the DOM purely for styling hooks, it may as well lift a little more weight while it's there.

These same styling hooks can actually be placed in the DOM as WAI-ARIA (https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/) states. The States and Properties section of WAI-ARIA describes the W3C's standardised manner in which to communicate states and properties to assistive technology within an application. In the opening section of the abstract description for WAI-ARIA, it contains this:

These semantics are designed to allow an author to properly convey user interface behaviors (sic) and structural information to assistive technologies in document-level markup

While the specification is aimed at helping communicate state and properties to users with disability (via assistive technology) it serves the need...

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