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I think a big part of the reason why people don't care about accessibility anymore is because you can't make a website without someone pulling out a Bible-lengt

I think a big part of the reason why people don't care about accessibility anymore is because you can't make a website without someone pulling out a Bible-length list of asinine complaints, and that is for a site "in the top 60% of pages". I know that I have stopped caring for "accessibility" almost entirely beyond the most obvious things. Most of these complaints are either totally inane and unnoticeable, or will affect so few people over the site's lifetime that I can count them on one hand. I think it's good for people to try and make your website as accessible as possible, but there's a limit to how hard you can indignantly demand people bend over backwards for you.

wizzwizz4 7y ago
Most of the issues I've listed aren't accessibility problems. They're caching, efficiency and usability problems. Only the first six are accessibility issues. The list contains “inane and unnoticeable” issues because I was checking it manually, only spotting what came to mind. This is because external accessibility tools cannot check this website for accessibility issues, because they cannot access it. I did not pick up on, for example, the issue of content flashing up on the screen in distinct parts, hitting the "three flicker limit" heuristic for seizure safety. Sure, that's only going to effect very few people, and it's fairly low contrast compared to other sites, and on a high-end gaming PC this would all occur within a single frame (making the point moot), but it's still something to consider and attempt to minimise. Personally, I'm more concerned with the bandwidth; the fact that the page makes requests to Google's CDN for images and fonts that should be hosted on the same domain (and ideally provided on the same connection); and the ridiculous amount of processing my browser has to perform to draw the page. There are many more issues with the page than just a11y.

wizzwizz4 7y ago

Most of the issues I've listed aren't accessibility problems. They're caching, efficiency and usability problems. Only the first six are accessibility issues. The list contains “inane and unnoticeable” issues because I was checking it manually, only spotting what came to mind. This is because external accessibility tools cannot check this website for accessibility issues, because they cannot access it. I did not pick up on, for example, the issue of content flashing up on the screen in distinct parts, hitting the "three flicker limit" heuristic for seizure safety. Sure, that's only going to effect very few people, and it's fairly low contrast compared to other sites, and on a high-end gaming PC this would all occur within a single frame (making the point moot), but it's still something to consider and attempt to minimise. Personally, I'm more concerned with the bandwidth; the fact that the page makes requests to Google's CDN for images and fonts that should be hosted on the same domain (and ideally provided on the same connection); and the ridiculous amount of processing my browser has to perform to draw the page. There are many more issues with the page than just a11y.