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- This got shared around the work chat recently. A blog post by Álvaro Montoro that busts 10 myths about accessibility:
- Accessibility is difficult – “Accessibility is not difficult. Do you know what’s difficult? Running at an Olympic level. A Web Developer can learn at least the basics of Web Accessibility within hours”.
- Accessibility is expensive – “Something that they could have avoided if they had implemented accessibility at the start”.
- Accessible websites are ugly – “Nothing could be further from the truth”.
- Accessibility is for blind people/screen readers – “The people who require Web Accessibility are not a homogeneous group”.
- Accessibility is for people with disabilities – “There are invisible and situation disabilities that impair people and limit what they can do temporarily (or even permanently)”.
- Automatic tests are enough for accessibility – “automatic tests only detect ~30% of the issues.”.
- Accessibility overlays are enough to ensure Web Accessibility – “The consensus in the Accessibility community is almost unanimous: overlays don’t work”.
- HTML is accessible by default – “elements like
<video>
or<audio>
have controls that are not fully keyboard-accessible and that differ considerably from browser to browser and cause frustration. ‘Mostly accessible’ looks much better.” - No ARIA > Bad ARIA – the equation should be “Good ARIA > No ARIA > Bad ARIA”. Otherwise we “perpetuate a false dichotomy. We can learn ARIA, practice ARIA, improve ARIA”.
- Prefers reduced motion means no motion – “We don’t need to cancel every motion on a website. Instead, we need to think through them, check what’s appropriate and not”.
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