Can you provide the links to know in which countries (not country) this practice is illegal? It will be a useful resource for all of us. One thing is that a practice is not user-friendly and should not be promoted and another is that is illegal based on local or regional laws. At least, I have never heard that any country has prohibited this.
Also, do you have any documentation on how these countries enforced it? If it was the case, many websites would be already banned. It makes little sense. I don't think let's say Liechtenstein will passing this law can force China to make all their websites accessible just because its population will be affected. Chinese developers can easily ignore this law and will be hard to enforce if Liechtenstein could do it. It will be more like if the Chinese government agreed with Liechtenstein's terms. Most likely the Chinese government will ignore them. It's just a matter of power. Additionally, Chinese developers could block Liechtenstein users from accessing their websites and that's all problem solved. How do you enforce it?
Another thing would be that the EU created a law like that and brought it to life, a good example was the GDPR. This had a global impact. However, if only one country or some small countries try to pass laws like this, if you don't live or have businesses with them, it will be nearly impossible to enforce them. You could send an email to them and they will only ignore it, especially.
More than public websites (which this one must be included, for example), it's related to:
"public sector bodies, including government websites, educational institutions, healthcare providers, and libraries." ... Consequences of Non-Compliance EU member states are legally bound to ensure that public sector websites and applications comply with the Web Accessibility Directive.
Also, it's pretty specific to EU countries (probably, it's extendable to the EFTA)public sector websites and apps, it cannot be enforced in the UK (Brexit) or India, for instance. Most importantly, it doesn't apply to the private sector which is pretty much the majority of the world.
Accessibility is as difficult to enforce as trying to convince companies that they should make their websites green(sustainable). If there is no significant money behind or a considerable fine, pretty much only the affected ones try to push for it. It will be easier that one day there is an AI in the browser that guesses the missing tags or disable the non-accessible features (this could lead to copyright issues because Generative AI tools using these data to be trained) than convincing developers or companies to invest time in it.
Can you provide the links to know in which countries (not country) this practice is illegal? It will be a useful resource for all of us. One thing is that a practice is not user-friendly and should not be promoted and another is that is illegal based on local or regional laws. At least, I have never heard that any country has prohibited this.
Also, do you have any documentation on how these countries enforced it? If it was the case, many websites would be already banned. It makes little sense. I don't think let's say Liechtenstein will passing this law can force China to make all their websites accessible just because its population will be affected. Chinese developers can easily ignore this law and will be hard to enforce if Liechtenstein could do it. It will be more like if the Chinese government agreed with Liechtenstein's terms. Most likely the Chinese government will ignore them. It's just a matter of power. Additionally, Chinese developers could block Liechtenstein users from accessing their websites and that's all problem solved. How do you enforce it?
Another thing would be that the EU created a law like that and brought it to life, a good example was the GDPR. This had a global impact. However, if only one country or some small countries try to pass laws like this, if you don't live or have businesses with them, it will be nearly impossible to enforce them. You could send an email to them and they will only ignore it, especially.
This is the one of the first results when you search: "accessible website illegal EU"
Is Website Accessibility a Legal Requirement in the EU?
But it seems this is only for public websites, you can still have a shitty blog that no one can use and you will be fine.
More than public websites (which this one must be included, for example), it's related to:
Also, it's pretty specific to EU countries (probably, it's extendable to the EFTA) public sector websites and apps, it cannot be enforced in the UK (Brexit) or India, for instance. Most importantly, it doesn't apply to the private sector which is pretty much the majority of the world.
Accessibility is as difficult to enforce as trying to convince companies that they should make their websites green (sustainable). If there is no significant money behind or a considerable fine, pretty much only the affected ones try to push for it. It will be easier that one day there is an AI in the browser that guesses the missing tags or disable the non-accessible features (this could lead to copyright issues because Generative AI tools using these data to be trained) than convincing developers or companies to invest time in it.
By public, I mean public sector. Sorry for the confusion. You can see this in my comment:
Why I would put this sentence if I would mean all public websites, and how a shitty blog is not public?
I understand. My goal was to avoid any future confusion by potential readers.