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How developers and companies should NOT reply to accessibility concerns (blindjournalist.wordpress.com)
submitted by rkingett
Vaelian 6 points 6y ago
Back when I had sight I never really considered accessibility even though I could lose my sight at any time due to my glaucoma, which ended up happening 3 years ago. It wasn't on purpose, it was just pure ignorance.
iceking393 3 points 6y ago
Exactly - there's people like me who have just found out how to create websites, but don't know how to make them more accessible. (Not professional or anything, just taught myself a bit of HTML, then left it *slightly* and went for WordPress. But I still use it to create 'alt' text for images, as well as captions- do they conflict at all? And also for unordered lists (bullet pointed lists) and ordered lists (numbered lists).

When you follow the first link on the OPs linked site, it takes you to $1. I also found $1, a site where you can enter the URL of another website into a search box, then press Enter, and it tells you where some possible accessibility problems might be on that website.
fastfinge 5 points 6y ago
This is why the Wordpress commitment to accessibility is so important. Small companies, and part time devs, like yourself are likely to just use Wordpress or Drupal for almost everything. And those platforms have made it pretty difficult to do anything inaccessible by default. Even most third party themes follow the access guidelines.
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