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What would an ethical overlay look like?

• Karl Groves writes about the ‘overlay widgets’ offered by companies such as accessiBe, and how their claim that including their product on your website will make it fully WCAG compliant is simply untrue. Many a11y issues, such as missing alt text, can only be fixed by a person. Moreover, the extra features an overlay often provides (e.g. screen magnification) are poor imitations of what’s already available to the user on their computer. The only ‘ethical’ overlay is a temporary one, Karl says: it should only be used as a discovery tool to find accessibility problems, which you should then spend time fixing the root cause of.

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