Yeah, I'm sure it's on the way up, and at a historical high actually.
The only time pages were more parseable than now would be when they were truly formatted like documents and table layouts didn't take off yet.
But then there were neither accessibility tools to make use of it, nor semantically meaningful HTML5 attributes, nor additional attributes for accessibility.
So yeah, I don't agree with the "accessibility has become an afterthought" statement. It is still an afterthought for many end developers, such as small businesses, but frameworks and component libraries are doing an unprecedented good job of making it easy and even automatic to be accessible.
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Unfortunately, accessibility has become an afterthought for lots of people but I think, hope really, that that is really starting to change 😀.
Yeah, I'm sure it's on the way up, and at a historical high actually.
The only time pages were more parseable than now would be when they were truly formatted like documents and table layouts didn't take off yet.
But then there were neither accessibility tools to make use of it, nor semantically meaningful HTML5 attributes, nor additional attributes for accessibility.
So yeah, I don't agree with the "accessibility has become an afterthought" statement. It is still an afterthought for many end developers, such as small businesses, but frameworks and component libraries are doing an unprecedented good job of making it easy and even automatic to be accessible.