Ok genuine question for my developer/engineer Twitter pals who do not identify as accessibility specialists. What has been the biggest factor for you not delivering fully accessible code? Comments welcome 💕
4% I’m not super interested
66% Org doesn’t prioritize
5% JS = career growth
26% Don’t know where to start
259 votes • Final results
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I am an educator and advocate more than a coder and I believe that we need to understand far more about cognitive bias, separatism, benevolent ableism. Accessibility for the web has been made last when it must be first. How do you access the web if you don't have access?
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I was thinking about this today as I was writing descriptive alt text. I could’ve been cut & dried about it but I realized maybe alt text’s experience should be a blend of plain text & CSS.
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Hmm. CSS is a presentational and visual thing. Alt text is rendered linearly, with no styling, and typically either aurally or via Braille output. I’m not seeing how that works out with CSS (pun maybe intended).
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Replying to @A11yRules @playwrightswife @AT_Fresh_Dev
Hahaha I think Alt text just is so freaking boring and to add more show called semantics like caption and figure just make the whole text thing that much more of a trigger. Not exactly wrong if we're publishing content as content and not decorative imagery AKA CSS

Oct 22, 2021 · 3:42 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @playwrightswife @AT_Fresh_Dev
Alt text is only as boring as the author lacks creativity. Also, as a screen reader user, I’m not sure I’d want full in creative alt text all the time.
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writing alt text is boring and after a long time of doing it I do lack creativity! And I do not want full on creative alt text all the time either! :) My main gripe is this conversation has been going on for way too long. Why, I respectfully ask, is this such an issue these days?
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