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Federico Navarrete • Edited

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."
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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.

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Jakub T. Jankiewicz

By public, I mean public sector. Sorry for the confusion. You can see this in my comment:

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.

Why I would put this sentence if I would mean all public websites, and how a shitty blog is not public?

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Federico Navarrete

I understand. My goal was to avoid any future confusion by potential readers.