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CSS Accessibility Websites HTML: Part 1

Travis Stewart
Travis Stewart
15,188 Points
Posted by Travis Stewart
Travis Stewart
15,188 Points

Why is the Accessibility course toward the end of the Front End Developer track?

I feel like this should have been included in Nick's "How to Make a Website" class at the beginning. I just completed AJAX Basics and completely rebuilt my homepage using it... and now I'm back to coding raw HTML/CSS and talking about the importance of proper heading structure. I'm not knocking the content at all. This really is important stuff. I just don't think it is placed correctly in the overall track. It doesn't matter if you are building a website or a skyscraper, ADA compliance needs to be considered from the beginning of any project.

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Ayoub AIT IKEN
Ayoub AIT IKEN
12,314 Points

Cant agree more ! its a little bit frustrating, since you cant pass to the next courses, its like I was in a high speed train, and then it stopped in a station for days ! Agghh !

Holly Lethbridge
Holly Lethbridge
6,504 Points

Exactly this! Placement of course seemed to derail my train a bit. :)

Anthony Attard
Anthony Attard
43,915 Points
Anthony Attard
Anthony Attard
43,915 Points

This is when I'm grateful for the 2x speed. Breeze right through this course.

Anthony Kelly
Anthony Kelly
15,649 Points

I second (fourth?) this comment. Plus, it makes the part with the screen reader sound hilarious.

Britton Zirkle
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Britton Zirkle
Courses Plus Student 15,005 Points
Britton Zirkle
Britton Zirkle
Courses Plus Student 15,005 Points

ditto! i felt like i was making some real progress in development then BAM! back to basics. It honestly would have been nice to see a more indepth course in ajax, jquery, javascript etc... in place of this course and move this to the beginning of the track. its necessary and i see the value, just not happy with the placement and sudden jolt to my progress due to what feels like going backwards and switching topics so abruptly. just my 2 cents.

Shawn Denham
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Shawn Denham
Python Development Techdegree Student 17,801 Points
Shawn Denham
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Shawn Denham
Python Development Techdegree Student 17,801 Points

Agreed, it is in a funky place!

Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
8,169 Points
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
8,169 Points

I'll back the request to place this after How to Make a Website in the FEDW (and other tracks they are both in).

Simona Brick
Simona Brick
507 Points
Simona Brick
Simona Brick
507 Points

Agreed

Simona Brick
Simona Brick
507 Points
Simona Brick
Simona Brick
507 Points

Agreed

Ivan Kusakovic
Ivan Kusakovic
12,197 Points
Ivan Kusakovic
Ivan Kusakovic
12,197 Points

People, if you click on Library and then select HTML for showing and select Beginner level, this is second video, after Joy's video intro to HTML. Maybe Treehouse made that in meantime :)