Here's a good question: what are your fave quick wins when refactoring, or just tweaking while fixing an unrelated bug? I like it when legacy codebases decided to hang styles off classes, so I can change <div class=nav> into a <nav class=nav> and make it much better for assistive tech users with no other changes required. https://mastodon.social/@timking/112203115458940448
Ditto changing <div class="header"> to <header class="header"> and adding <search> elements; a ton of bang for the buck. Could be more work, but replacing crappy JS faux-accordians with <details> and <summary> brings robust keyboard a11y to pages with little effort.
@sarajw If it's any consolation, it was new to me too. I remembered doing it in the pre IE9 days, but until recently hadn't realised it was still a problem
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