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I get that blind people don’t ride electric bikes and a lawsuit is out of line for sure when a friendly “hey your site is inaccessible to people with disabiliti
by nucleogenesis 2y ago
I get that blind people don’t ride electric bikes and a lawsuit is out of line for sure when a friendly “hey your site is inaccessible to people with disabilities” might suffice.
But maybe folks should just make their sites accessible.
Blind people aren’t the only people who use assistive technologies and the ADA exists for a good reason. Install an a11y grading browser extension and see just how many sites are virtually inaccessible to disabled people for all the evidence you need to see how people with disabilities will so often not be treated equitably.
- spacebacon 2y agoAccessibility is an operating system and browser responsibility. It is effective at integration at this level. It is not effective to ask every webmaster to be responsible for the problem individually. This is nonsense. Modern operating systems and web browsers do a good job at owning this without bulky scripts on the front end ruining experiences for the remaining 99%.
- nucleogenesis 2y agoRight and it’s the responsibility of a webmaster to use those tools OSs and browsers provide to make accessible apps. Semantic HTML with good useful labels goes a huge way. It’s not that complicated… unless you’re using a bunch of bulky front end scripts that clobber the native accessibility features. Also, screen readers in particular have not historically been the purview of OSs at that level, hence the several different proprietary programs that help people interface with their computer. Apple products from what I’ve heard are an exception though