⚠️ Rant about accessibility
@nickcolley @blindscribe
Had this conversation (yet again, sigh) with a client earlier this morning. This person being someone who understood though:
We won't make any progress if all these projects keep building first and then start thinking about accessibility later on. Accessibility has to be front and center. Otherwise you did not build a usable thing at all, and you likely will have to redo stuff to improve it and you won't because you'll claim resources are depleted by then and you'll start loving the excuse "come on, it works for most people".
And the appeal for help... "we built this thing, can someone help us make it accessible please (for free please)" sounds at first like a friendly voice but also says a lot about how low of a priority accessibility has been up until then and likely will continue to be.
Sorry, just needed to get this out of my system… People could very well be the nicest of persons and have the best of intent, but WCAG 1.0 came out in 1999. That's now 24 years ago. WCAG 2.0 in 2008. If you build stuff for the web, why are you deciding to ignore all this vast amount of knowledge that is available for free?