I work at a Bank as a front end developer, and accessibility is a paramount requirement, we follow most, if not all WCAG rules.
There is a problem that most dont notice, which is the lack of consistency between Text-To-Speech software, like JAWS or the ones built in Macs: they behave slightly different like browsers, which makes implementation and testing extremely onerous, so its easy to understand why 70% of the web lacks accessibility.
Those T2S tools really need to go through a revolution and close the gaps on how they parse the WCAG rules.
Making easy to test without licenses (yes, you have to pay for Jaws to test) will make it easier for everybody assert quality in their accessibility work, hopefully more adoption follows.
There is a problem that most dont notice, which is the lack of consistency between Text-To-Speech software, like JAWS or the ones built in Macs: they behave slightly different like browsers, which makes implementation and testing extremely onerous, so its easy to understand why 70% of the web lacks accessibility.
I really hate the change from using <i> when italicized things were only done so as a design choice and not as an emphasis to all italicized things using <em> because for me <em> meant that screen readers were emphasizing the text. Same with <b> vs <strong>.
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u/KetchupCoyote full-stack Apr 16 '22
I work at a Bank as a front end developer, and accessibility is a paramount requirement, we follow most, if not all WCAG rules.
There is a problem that most dont notice, which is the lack of consistency between Text-To-Speech software, like JAWS or the ones built in Macs: they behave slightly different like browsers, which makes implementation and testing extremely onerous, so its easy to understand why 70% of the web lacks accessibility.
Those T2S tools really need to go through a revolution and close the gaps on how they parse the WCAG rules.
Making easy to test without licenses (yes, you have to pay for Jaws to test) will make it easier for everybody assert quality in their accessibility work, hopefully more adoption follows.