The biggest, most deadly sin I see regarding accessibility is just not giving a crap. If you don't care about users and have empathy for people with disabilities, you're not going to get much of anywhere. It's also the most frustrating because there's only so much I can do to help people learn to care about other people, ya know?
The most common and most personally frustrating accessibility sin that I see is poor color contrast. It's really simple to check your colors to see if they have sufficient contrast, and it's pretty easy to adjust colors to fix this problem. Not only is color contrast necessary for folks with color blindness and low/no vision, it helps everyone to not have to strain to read your site. Unfortunately, lots of people don't know to think about color contrast, and there are so many sites that are just super unusable. I'm a person with (mostly) normal vision, but as an accessibility engineer married to a person with colorblindness, sites with bad color contrast are just like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Dev.to does a pretty good job of accessibility, at first glance! I haven't done an audit on it, but given that it's all open source, I'll likely check it over and open some Github issues for problems I find. Thanks for the idea!
It's so good to see more and more a11y content appearing on DEV.to, if you had to single out the one biggest accessibility 'sin' what would it be?
When you look at this site, from an accessibility stand point, what things do you wish were different?
Ooooh, that's tricky.
The biggest, most deadly sin I see regarding accessibility is just not giving a crap. If you don't care about users and have empathy for people with disabilities, you're not going to get much of anywhere. It's also the most frustrating because there's only so much I can do to help people learn to care about other people, ya know?
The most common and most personally frustrating accessibility sin that I see is poor color contrast. It's really simple to check your colors to see if they have sufficient contrast, and it's pretty easy to adjust colors to fix this problem. Not only is color contrast necessary for folks with color blindness and low/no vision, it helps everyone to not have to strain to read your site. Unfortunately, lots of people don't know to think about color contrast, and there are so many sites that are just super unusable. I'm a person with (mostly) normal vision, but as an accessibility engineer married to a person with colorblindness, sites with bad color contrast are just like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Dev.to does a pretty good job of accessibility, at first glance! I haven't done an audit on it, but given that it's all open source, I'll likely check it over and open some Github issues for problems I find. Thanks for the idea!
Newly released Firefox 64 added a tool to check color contrast ratios to the Accessibility inspector.
I've just been playing with it and it seems a bit useful