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> As someone who believes web developers are often lazy There is some of that however what I've found there is more of is "We don't want to provide you the res
by noir_lord 10y ago
> As someone who believes web developers are often lazy
There is some of that however what I've found there is more of is "We don't want to provide you the resources in manpower/budget/programmer time to make things accessible".
That and the laws are rarely enforced even WCAG is rarely implemented.
I'd love it if there was a clear bar for accessibility that was legally enforced as then I could say to clients "You have to do this to comply with the law" which is a much clearer "sell" than "You should make this accessible to <foo|bar> and it'll cost <fizz|buzz>" since clients largely don't care.
Now someone will argue that I should just make everything accessible anyway but I have to bill for that time/work/testing which means I'll be more expensive than my competitor who doesn't do that and clients are incredibly price-sensitive.
It's a hard thing to balance.
The internal product I'm currently building will be accessible, not just it passes WCAG checker accessible (which is a horribly low bar) but really accessible, I'm even planning to buy a couple of screen reader software (which is way expensive btw) and using it as part of my integration testing.