From the course: Simplifying Web Development with Accessibility Best Practices

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Overcomplicating things that already work

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From the course: Simplifying Web Development with Accessibility Best Practices

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Overcomplicating things that already work

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- [Instructor] Watching this course, there's a good chance you'll have quite a few, well, obviously moments where I show you something you already know or something that's plainly obvious to anyone looking. That's kind of the whole point of this exercise. Front-end web development is simple at its core, but can easily get complex because there are so many different ways of doing things and so much exploration and innovation and evolution happening all at the same time. So I made this course to help reframe and re-anchor our thinking around how we build things for the web on one core principle: accessibility. Why? Because accessibility is the core promise of the web and because developing with accessibility in mind makes development a lot more straightforward and simplified. This requires an example. So here's the markup of a button generated by a popular React framework. This is what we normally call a div button…

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