A11Y Unraveled: Become a Web Accessibility Ninja

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D. GeorgakasA11Y Unraveledhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9085-9_2

2. Be a Designer, They Said. It’ll Be Fun, They Said.

Dimitris Georgakas¹  

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Oldham, UK

 

The year was 2004. I can’t really tell what the weather was like, but given the fact I was born and grew up in Athens, Greece, you can pretty much assume it was a nice, warm, and bright morning. One of the modules I had to do as part of my geography studies was web mapping, and what we had to learn to complete the course was HTML and CSS. Web mapping is basically using any map you have produced, on the Internet. We’d take the spatial data, visualize them, and then use a web-based platform to view and ...