Yes, out-of-the box cross-platform is the main thing going for HTML+CSS. It's an undeniable fact. As long as you don't do anything fancy on the page, accessibi

Yes, out-of-the box cross-platform is the main thing going for HTML+CSS. It's an undeniable fact. As long as you don't do anything fancy on the page, accessibility is now great for HTML, too. However, since it lacks everything that makes a UI useful [1], all the custom components everyone is busy re-making from scratch make the web a miserable place from accessibility point of view [2]. Much worse than native frameworks which often enjoy deep integration with the underlying OS's accessibility features. [1] See the work by https://open-ui.org https://open-ui.org and the many, many, many UI components most UI toolkits take for granted and have out of the box [2] And some of the work in the browsers made it worse: https://nolanlawson.com/2022/11/28/shadow-dom-and-accessibility-the-trouble-with-aria/ https://nolanlawson.com/2022/11/28/shadow-dom-and-accessibil...