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[sasha_feather]

Anne Gibson at "A List Apart": Reframing Accessibility for the Web

Comments

[komadori]

This is an excellent article. Ever since I became legally blind, I started to feel like I was never the target demographic for anything besides assistive technology. This article addresses that concern beautifully.

[jazzyjj]

This is indeed a nice article. I'm not that design-savvy, but I found myself contemplating the issues raised. It's so unfortunate that accessibility depends on cost to a great extent. Case in point: I help out with social media for a nonprofit disability-related organization based here in Illinois. The front end of our website is indeed accessible with screen readers. At least all screen readers with which I've used the site work well on it. But our back end is not at all accessible with said screen readers. Awhile back I received an email from a former co-worker, containing a link to what was to be the start of our new back end. She provided me with our log-in information, and asked if I would test the half-built back end with both Windows-based screen readers I used at the time. So I did, and it worked great with both. But I was unable to proceed any further with the testing, not because of accessibility barriers but due to lack of funding. It almost makes me sick to write this. How some people can just discredit accessibility needs is daunting to me.

[sasha_feather]

It is so dispiriting. People cite cost all the time and act like accessibility is something "extra" when it is a basic building block for all people to use something.

[sasha_feather]

I am glad you found it useful!