{"id":1094,"date":"2025-07-24T17:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/web-kb\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:57:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:57:51","slug":"accessibility-techniques-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/web-kb\/2025\/07\/24\/accessibility-techniques-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility Techniques: HTML"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/#html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/#html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/html\/H2\">H2: Combining adjacent image and text links for the same resource<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/html\/H24\">H24: Providing text alternatives for the area elements of image 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