Facebook Updates Accessibility Efforts

Facebook made two accessibility-related announcements Monday, sharing its HIKE primer and introducing an accessibility application-programming interface for React and React Native.

Facebook made two accessibility-related announcements Monday, sharing its HIKE primer and introducing an accessibility application-programming interface for React and React Native.

Rayma Sethuraman, who works on accessibility for the social network, offered details on HIKE in a blog post, saying:

The primer teaches some essentials of Web accessibility through simple exercises. HIKE is an acronym to help people remember the basic principles of writing accessible code for the web:

  • H stands for headings and semantic content.
  • I stands for images and non-text content.
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