Re: On Accessibility and the Lack of Proper HTML

2016年1月7日 著

I read an article titled “On Accessibility and the Lack of Proper HTML“ a few days ago. I recommend to read it, no matter how hard you've already worked on accessibility as a "good" web designer/developer, if you haven't read it yet.

It's hard to know exactly, but I feel that fear and ignorance play a large part in this, with many developers thinking that making their sites more accessible is a huge chore, and they'd rather spend their time building their websites in the latest (probably inaccessible) JavaScript framework instead.

Of course I don't know exact reason why so many designers/developers ignore (or, at least, make light of) web accessibility. Maybe they don't understand the web. Maybe they recognize the web as imitation of printing. Maybe they're enthusiastic only about visual surface of the web, rather than its semantics and its architecture. Maybe they've fallen to the dark side of web designing. I don't know.

There are plenty of people out there who advocate accessibility, and who have been doing so for many years, yet, so far there has been no break through article such as Ethan's responsive web design one mentioned above that has captured the web developer's imagination in the same way.

I'm so sorry about that, though I've ever tried to change the situation for years, through my presentations, blog posts etc. I have to keep on screaming, rather than saying, that the only way to make web content device-independent, future-friendly is to make it accessible. I'm sure I'll do that! Also, I'll do my best for my talk at this year's CSUN conference, titled “Rebranding Web Accessibility - We Changed Our Game Plan” in March.