a11y education was just absolutely abysmal when I started learning web development. Even if you had good intentions, figuring out how to make something accessib

a11y education was just absolutely abysmal when I started learning web development. Even if you had good intentions, figuring out how to make something accessible when you were building out new widgets required a lot of research. I think documentation has gotten a bit better since then, but it still relies on having an engineer that cares enough to bother learning about the topic in the first place. If you compare Chrome Dev Tools now to what was available 10 years ago, the difference in capabilities was stark. My memory is fuzzy, but I don't think it had support for anything related to accessibility, but over the years they kept adding new features to make it easier to build accessible websites. I think it's an education gap which can be closed with better tools and documentation.