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2 hours ago

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I have been thinking about how implementing accessibility itself is inaccessible to most of devs who aren't in a huge company with dedicated a11y or UX teams

I would love to know what you all think, like the tools which help implement it?

I am talking of Developer Experience in a sense? Like we have so many clis / frameworks / libraries to help with other stuff we have to do, being the brilliant developers everyone here is

But I haven't come across the same huge variety of tools that are as widespread and meant for developers to implement accessibility, even with it being something everysite needs

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baubino

53 minutes ago

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I would love some kind of accessibility library. Especially as a mostly solo dev working on a medium-size project, ensuring the application is accessible means having to constantly relearn standards whenever anything needs to be updated. Which means parts of the site just don’t meet accessibility standards.

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andsoitis

1 hour ago

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> who aren't in a huge company with dedicated a11y or UX teams

Assuming you’re a small team and with a site / product that’s not big yet, can you share why you are thinking to implement accessibility at this stage?

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beardyw

1 hour ago

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If you leave it late you will find it much more difficult to implement. And it is important to do. I created a free music app which by coincidence was easy for blind people to use. The gratitude I got has made me conscious to do this ever since.

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throwawaysleep

1 hour ago

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The problem with accessibility is the need to think about it at all. It doesn't matter how easy it is to implement as the problem first and foremost is the mental and organizational bandwidth consumes.

Perfect accessibility on the web as it stands requires every dev to be working on it. Especially in a world of AI, efforts on this would be better spent on AI agents that replace screenreaders.