Make Download Links More Accessible

Created on 4 February 2018, over 6 years ago
Updated 26 May 2023, about 1 year ago

Interesting article here:
https://css-tricks.com/building-good-download-button/

Lots of opportunity improve CSS styling as well as adding download attributes to links:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a

Could be a nice way to make it more obvious and more semantic to download attachments. https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-usable/

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11.0 πŸ”₯

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File moduleΒ  β†’

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Canada mgifford Ottawa, Ontario

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  • πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Canada mgifford Ottawa, Ontario

    It might be considered part of a WCAG SC in 2.2 or 3.0 but right now it isn't. This is useful for cognitive accessibility.

    Agreed about it being a task for now.

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