I don't care about being accused of an -ism, I care about old people being able to use the internet. The ones I provide free IT services for are in the early s

I don't care about being accused of an -ism, I care about old people being able to use the internet. The ones I provide free IT services for are in the early stages of dementia. I bought such person a computer out of my own pocket with an extra large 17" screen, specifically because I have no faith in web developers to give a crap if they can use their website, and larger fonts are readable with less contrast. I'm a horrible ageist because I think vision related accessibility features are especially important for older people. I am morally below you. >It sounds like you want FAANG to be the only game in town given they're probably the only people with the budget and bodies to fulfill all of your requirements Have building codes caused the independent contractor to go extinct? There are various ways to scale accessibility and make it easy like building it directly into UI toolkits, frameworks, etc. In fact the criticism in this thread isn't aimed at Joe developer making a small website, it's somebody making a tool that many developers will use that will break their sites functionality. I care much more when somebody is making inaccessible tooling that's bad than I do when an unskilled developer doesn't know how to design an accessible UI. I don't expect every website made by every developer at every skill level no matter how old or niche it is to be accessible, I'm not insane. Yet contrast has to be one of the absolute easiest parts of accessibility (compared to say making a site screen reader compatible) and most of the excuses for not caring about it are exceedingly lame. Even for NON-DISABLED users low contrast is a hallmark of bad design and a site that's difficult to actually use.