So, I was on an accessibility focused team, testing and cleaning up after the feature developers to make sure the whole product still met WCAG 2.0 to AA level. I can state with complete confidence that anyone without such a team will introduce unexpected accessibility breakage and regressions every single release, sometimes in completely untouched sections. For trivial tweaks. Screen readers are finicky, temperamental and moody beasts. Modern web toolkits do a fairly good job of being accessible out of the box, but like ChatGPT generated text, they require a bit of help sometimes.
Would not be surprised if Reddit just wants to pay lip service to accessibility. That shit costs cubic money to do right, and slows the roll of releases. Unfortunately, most advertisers on a social platform couldn’t care less.
Ah! Someone who understands!! You know what really drives me up the wall? Heading misuse! Oh yeah, let’s just put this <h4> at the top of the page before anything else. Who cares about hierarchy, anyway? It’s not like anyone uses these things, right?
Oh, and not just heading misuse, but how about the total lack of an <h1>! And the name of the site is…null! Like, how can you miss that?? JFC, even google.com doesn’t have a frickin <h1>! Aarrgh why
So, I was on an accessibility focused team, testing and cleaning up after the feature developers to make sure the whole product still met WCAG 2.0 to AA level. I can state with complete confidence that anyone without such a team will introduce unexpected accessibility breakage and regressions every single release, sometimes in completely untouched sections. For trivial tweaks. Screen readers are finicky, temperamental and moody beasts. Modern web toolkits do a fairly good job of being accessible out of the box, but like ChatGPT generated text, they require a bit of help sometimes.
Would not be surprised if Reddit just wants to pay lip service to accessibility. That shit costs cubic money to do right, and slows the roll of releases. Unfortunately, most advertisers on a social platform couldn’t care less.
Ah! Someone who understands!! You know what really drives me up the wall? Heading misuse! Oh yeah, let’s just put this <h4> at the top of the page before anything else. Who cares about hierarchy, anyway? It’s not like anyone uses these things, right?
Oh, and not just heading misuse, but how about the total lack of an <h1>! And the name of the site is…null! Like, how can you miss that?? JFC, even google.com doesn’t have a frickin <h1>! Aarrgh why