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> nevermind the basic accessibility requirements that are often missing like alt text on images It's easier than ever to make websites accessible and a lot of
by brigadier132 3y ago
> nevermind the basic accessibility requirements that are often missing like alt text on images
It's easier than ever to make websites accessible and a lot of these new tools enable this. Like throwing linter errors when alt text is not set on images.
A lot of the things described in this article are issues with a lack of skill or maliciousness from the developer or whoever hired them. That copy paste thing? I almost always notice it on the websites of legacy book publishers. I think you can pretty easily guess their motivations.
I dislike react for other reasons but the majority of developers having shallow knowledge of how the web works is not one of them. That's just nature, the most common thing always ends up going to the lowest common denominator. Chocolate: hersheys or nestle, coffee: nespresso pods, food: mcdonalds, programming: javascript...
- nosefurhairdo 3y agoCan confirm the pain of working on a react application where 90% of the code was written by folks with shallow web knowledge. Not the fault of React.
- blorenz 3y agoI'd wager with the rise of LLMs then we'll get an immense rise of accessibility as the LLM can interpret a page in context of what the user requires.
- nosefurhairdo 3y agoThen you may be underestimating accessibility guidelines or overestimating LLMs. The problem with inaccessible web applications is precisely that they cannot be interpreted programmatically, which would inhibit AI from performing this interpretation. An inaccessible website would be equivalent to a low quality prompt for an LLM.