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My best education on this was working with a guy who was absolutely militant about accessibility. He was the lead HTML/CSS guy for a contract firm that I worked
by brightball 9y ago
My best education on this was working with a guy who was absolutely militant about accessibility. He was the lead HTML/CSS guy for a contract firm that I worked with and insisted that all projects be tested in a standard browser AND screen readers.
The sales people didn't like it until he showed them how to pitch it properly to clients. Screen readers are a better reflection of how a search engine will read a site and so it was pushed as an SEO enhancement. Anecdotally, this was accurate from our research as well.
There's probably a couple thousand sites on the web now that are accessibility focused simply because of that one guy.
- talmand 9y agoMy advice to consumer-facing websites is that it's a means to avoid losing a potentially expensive lawsuit.
- crankylinuxuser 9y agoI think that's the point as well. By designing for accessibility, you prioritize for both people with handicaps as well as machines. Think of machines as really really fast visual handicap readers. And avoiding lawsuits is just a big plus as well.
- jjeaff 9y agoI think to be sued, you would have to have had requests from handicap users to make accomodations, and then refuse. And you would also have to have at least 15 full time employees to even be included in ADA requirements.
- dredmorbius 9y ago"Google is a blind user" https://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/06-08-steven-web40/ https://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/06-08-steven-web40/