From the course: Building a Resilient Web
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Accessible, by default
From the course: Building a Resilient Web
Accessible, by default
- [Presenter] I've mentioned this a couple of times already and bears repeating. Accessibility is the core promise and principle of the web. It may actually be the core principle and promise of the web. The whole point of the web is to make information accessible to whomever wants access. So if something on the web isn't accessible, it's not working right and the job isn't done. Here's the thing. The web at its core is accessible if you serve the user only in HTML document using only standard elements and features that document meets all accessibility requirements out of the box. That also means when a site or app or feature becomes inaccessible, it's because something was added to make it inaccessible. Whenever I say this, there's always pushback along the lines of I'm not a bad person. I didn't intentionally make things accessible, they just happen that way and it's hard to fix. That's kind of my point. I don't…
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