3 ms·
While there are a number of things that must be done especially for accessibility purposes, for the large part the web is trying to evolve towards natural acces
by Zikes 13y ago
While there are a number of things that must be done especially for accessibility purposes, for the large part the web is trying to evolve towards natural accessibility. The best example I can think of is SEO, as we attempt to make our sites readable by the various search engine crawlers we also make them more readable by software for the blind.
- mwcampbell 13y agoFor content-oriented web sites, you're correct. There are even workarounds for the often-discussed problem of image tags without ALT attributes, so IMO that one isn't a big deal. Rich web applications are more challenging, since they often invent their own UI widgets (or build on top of toolkits that do this), in addition to or even instead of using standard links and form controls. For these, the W3C has a standard called Accessible Rich Internet Applications (http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria). But in my experience, ARIA is often subject to misinterpretation by the browser, the assistive technology, the application/toolkit developer, or some combination of the three.
- Zikes 13y agoAgreed, in general rich web applications still have a long way to go in regards to accessibility.