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Thank you! What a breath of fresh air this essay is. Accessibility is ability to access, regardless of method, configuration, and skill. Telling the user thei
by forgotmypw17 5y ago
Thank you! What a breath of fresh air this essay is.
Accessibility is ability to access, regardless of method, configuration, and skill.
Telling the user their browser, device, or configuration is not good enough, in a situation where you could have bent over backwards a little bit and made it work for them, is hobbyism, I agree completely.
If a device is able to connect to your site and request the page, you should be able to accomodate it, regardless of age, configuration, CLOCK SETTING, and so on.
ANY BROWSER is not a pipe dream, but an attainable reality, and just plain nice and polite.
I've been able to almost single-handedly achieve support for all major browsers since Netscape 2.x, so I don't think it's beyond someone like Google to achieve the same. It makes me feel embarrassed for everyone involved when google.com search results are broken in a browser less than 10 years old.
- 5560675260 5y agoPersonally I'm for an opposite approach - content that I produce is already a free gift to the world, so it's on a user to find a way and means to consume it. Should be a bit of a challenge, really.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoWhat's the point of making the content if people aren't able to access it? Don't you want someone to find it and appreciate it? Or are you only interested in readers without disabilities or disadvantages, and who are willing to put in some busywork?
- username90 5y agoIt is unreasonable to expect hobbyists to shoulder the maintenance burden of everything they share with the world. It is fun to build things, it isn't fun to maintain things, but that doesn't mean that what you built can't have value for anyone without you maintaining it.