By Jen Goulden, EDP – Project & Quality Manager – Crawford Technologies Inc.

Web and document accessibility has changed dramatically over the last several years. The traditional formats (such as hard copy braille and large print) are still regularly requested, but electronic formats are becoming ever more prevalent. Accessible HTML5 is a good example of this. Although HTML is generally associated with web pages, it can also be used to produce accessible documents of any length and complexity level. HTML is certainly not a new format, and even Accessible HTML5 has been around for a number of years. So what is it about Accessible HTML5 that makes it different from HTML and why is it such a great option for transactional document accessibility?

One of the biggest differences between Accessible HTML5 and previous versions is the emphasis on semantics. The use of tags such as

and