Why you shouldn't use a div for everything - creating accessible buttons and navigations

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I think it's important to highlight when we've made past mistakes and show the right way to do it when we find those mistakes. 🔗 Links ✅ The finished code: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/BaVdrLm ✅ More on Visually Hidden: https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2017/04/14/inclusively-hidden.html 📚 Resources I used to help make this video: ✅ AcceDe Web Accessibility Guidelines: https://www.accede-web.com/en/guidelines/rich-interface-components/hamburger-menu/ ✅ Paul J Adam's Accessible Hamburger Menu: https://pauljadam.com/demos/hamburger-menu.html ✅ Ally Style Guide's Mobile Navigation: https://a11y-style-guide.com/style-guide/section-navigation.html#kssref-navigation-navigation-mobile ✅ Building Accessible Menu Systems on Smashing Magazine: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/11/building-accessible-menu-systems/#navigation-menu-buttons ⌚ Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 00:29 - The mistake I made 01:18 - Why divs don’t make good buttons 03:10 - Fixing the styling of the button 03:48 - The second big mistake 05:20 - Adding extra context to our button 09:27 - Fixing up the CSS 10:47 - Updating the original jQuery to JavaScript 12:03 - Adding the aria-expanded to the JS 13:20 - Making improvements to the JS 18:38 - The next problem - removing the menu when it’s closed 19:31 - Why it’s important to do all this 20:49 - Toggling the display of the ul 23:29 - Fixing the animation #css -- Come hang out with other dev's in my Discord Community 💬 https://discord.gg/nTYCvrK Keep up to date with everything I'm up to ✉ https://www.kevinpowell.co/newsletter Come hang out with me live every Monday on Twitch! 📺 https://www.twitch.tv/kevinpowellcss --- Help support my channel 👨‍🎓 Get a course: https://www.kevinpowell.co/courses 👕 Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/making-the-internet-awesome 💖 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kevinpowell --- My editor: VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ --- I'm on some other places on the internet too! If you'd like a behind the scenes and previews of what's coming up on my YouTube channel, make sure to follow me on Instagram and Twitter. Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinJPowell Codepen: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/ Github: https://github.com/kevin-powell --- And whatever you do, don't forget to keep on making your corner of the internet just a little bit more awesome!