accessibility structure
What can be read about accessibility from the document a server returns, without rendering it: a lang attribute, a title, alt on images, names on form controls and buttons, titles on frames, a main landmark, a skip link or landmarks, unique ids. A screen reader depends on all of these before contrast or focus order ever matters.
What accessibility structure does not show
Measured here; a WCAG audit is not.
Where accessibility structure comes up on this site
- 33 AI visibility tools measured: a third publish llms.txt, none an entity mapSince this post was written the battery has grown by three sections, E-E-A-T proxies, an RDF reading of the schema, and accessibility structure, and the reports linked here regenerate under the current battery, so a vendor's number today may differ from…
Terms this definition uses
main landmark · landmark · skip link · Focus order
Related terms in Indexing and discovery
Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
index coverage · canonical · noindex · X-Robots-Tag · orphan page · E-E-A-T · E-E-A-T proxies · topical authority · Soft 404 · case consistency · landmark region · accessible name · skip link · main landmark · alt attribute · form control name · duplicate id · IndexNow · faceted navigation · thin content · duplicate content · near-duplicate · boilerplate · MinHash · shingle · dead anchor · placeholder content · image placeholder · alt text · EXIF
Questions about accessibility structure
What is accessibility structure?
What can be read about accessibility from the document a server returns, without rendering it: a lang attribute, a title, alt on images, names on form controls and buttons, titles on frames, a main landmark, a skip link or landmarks, unique ids. A screen reader depends on all of these before contrast or focus order ever matters.
What does accessibility structure not show or guarantee?
What can be read about accessibility from the document a server returns, without rendering it: a lang attribute, a title, alt on images, names on form controls and buttons, titles on frames, a main landmark, a skip link or landmarks, unique ids. Measured here; a WCAG audit is not.
Which area of the glossary does accessibility structure belong to?
Indexing and discovery: Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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