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Discussion on: What can a backend dev do to improve Accessibility?

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James Robb • Edited

Performance (content delivery & optimisation), internationalisation and do HTML (semantics) and ARIA (roles, states and properties) properly and don’t think it “works” and so it’s fine.. it rarely is. On the note of ARIA, it’s best NOT to use it actually since websites that do have 11+ more errors on average due to bad implementation per page and so learn using the aria authoring practices guide before touching that.

Source for the aria stat - I recommend reading the whole article though too!

Generally though the biggest one for a backend is the performance area, reducing page size, request payloads, etc helps with income inequality by keeping data use down for those who can’t afford much which happens in even “developed” markets and more generally is good practice to boot.

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Patrick Charles-Lundaahl

+1 for reducing the amount of stuff you send over the wire.

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Vicki Langer

I haven't learned much about ARIA. I'll take a look at the article.

Yes! I think we often forget that not everyone has access to the same quality of internet connection. Making sure everything is as efficient and as small as possible is important.

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James Robb

It's a worthwhile read and could take you down some interesting rabbit holes, highly recommended.

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Anders Clark

I think this is a really good comment. Most high-end web developers live in the western world or at least work in an office with high-performance broadband but most of the world is not so lucky.