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"It's hard" doesn't generally fly as an excuse; it certainly won't in court. If you're a web developer, accessibility is part of the job. If you're not, you can
by lhorie 5y ago
"It's hard" doesn't generally fly as an excuse; it certainly won't in court. If you're a web developer, accessibility is part of the job. If you're not, you can buy that expertise either by using a SaaS or hiring a professional.
And if you bother to read the guidelines, they are relatively simple. There are regulatory bodies that are legal minefields and whose certification process depends partially on the whims of individual auditors (e.g. HIPAA), but WCAG is not one of those.
- toast0 5y ago> "It's hard" doesn't generally fly as an excuse; it certainly won't in court. ADA requires reasonable accomidations, so it's hard is a reasonable excuse. If the accomidation is too expensive or too time consuming, it might not be reasonable.
- lhorie 5y agoSure, but what you're saying can be be interpreted both charitably and not. The charitable interpretation is for scenarios like focus wrap-around in modals. It's possible to navigate by tabbing over focusable elements hidden behind the modal until you're in the modal again and it's sufficiently difficult to make focus work 100% correctly without extensive testing. But if you're trying to argue in court that your submit button can't be activated without a mouse because doing so is too hard, that's likely not going to pass muster, since virtually every other website on earth can easily figure out how to do it.