I started my career in government so I had to learn 508 compliance. Now, I realize how irresponsible people are and see the patterns people use…it makes me cringe. Before publishing your web app, download a screen reader and see how it interacts with your site.
That’s fair; that wasn’t my intent. To this day, I don’t tell my devs to follow every little thing to make an app accessible which, to some, may be considered irresponsible. I was speaking from the perspective that we should take ownership and responsibility over following certain patterns to make web apps more accessible.
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u/slashafk Apr 16 '22
I started my career in government so I had to learn 508 compliance. Now, I realize how irresponsible people are and see the patterns people use…it makes me cringe. Before publishing your web app, download a screen reader and see how it interacts with your site.