You mention accessibility in every sentence. Do companies and freelancers have the budget and time focusing so much on accessibility?
In the end, client pays for features and not bothered about accessibility.
Especially start-ups and these developers that are doing full-stack or full front-end (and not the front of the front-end). They do applications and not only websites.
When you write, it sounds like you are talking to some limited part of the developers - design oriented - front of the front-end.
Accessibility is only expensive when it's retro-fitted. Most browsers have excellent built in accessibility features that you get for free. As long as you do simple things like adding text alternatives to non-text items (alt tags to images). That way they can be translated to audio, large print, braille, different language. Even making sure your tabbed sequence makes sense and having focus on logical inputs is massively helpful. Decent descriptions for video/audio are great too.
Take a look at the WCAG. Focussing on accessibility may seem like a small return but to people with disabilities it means the difference between being able to use your app/site or not.
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You mention accessibility in every sentence. Do companies and freelancers have the budget and time focusing so much on accessibility?
In the end, client pays for features and not bothered about accessibility.
Especially start-ups and these developers that are doing full-stack or full front-end (and not the front of the front-end). They do applications and not only websites.
When you write, it sounds like you are talking to some limited part of the developers - design oriented - front of the front-end.
Accessibility is only expensive when it's retro-fitted. Most browsers have excellent built in accessibility features that you get for free. As long as you do simple things like adding text alternatives to non-text items (alt tags to images). That way they can be translated to audio, large print, braille, different language. Even making sure your tabbed sequence makes sense and having focus on logical inputs is massively helpful. Decent descriptions for video/audio are great too.
Take a look at the WCAG. Focussing on accessibility may seem like a small return but to people with disabilities it means the difference between being able to use your app/site or not.