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a11y and JS - A Seemingly Unconventional Romance

Lindsey Kopacz on January 28, 2019

This post was inspired by a few things. First, a few months ago Rian Rietveld announced she was resigning as the WordPress accessibility lead. I re...
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Sung M. Kim

Thank you for sharing a11y knowledge, Lindsey~

I found you via EggHead podcast, which was wonderful as well as dev.to shoutouts~

Championing a11y and Being Authentic - with Lindsey Kopacz

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Yuki Cheung

Thank you for your article! I am just trying to add accessibility to my projects too. (But I think no one cares, especially everyone hates the ugly focus ring! lol)

Sometimes I try to visit other sites with keyboard but it is not working anymore, those working with keyboards are government websites.

It is great to see the web is evolving to a better world with accessibility for everyone. I hope that accessibility could become the standard in the future!

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Andrew Bone • Edited

Another interesting and well written post Lindsey, thank you 🙂

I think the myth of javascript being bad for accessibility came from the days of people making buttons out of <div>s. In order to make things look pretty.

A practice, I'm hopeful, is slowly disappearing thanks to the creation of the native <button> tag.

I actually have posts on the native way to do accordions and modals 😉

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Lindsey Kopacz

Yeah! It's on my to-read list.

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rhymes

I want you to know that JavaScript isn’t the enemy of accessibility. Instead, lack of empathy is.

Loved this. Thanks for the refreshing article!

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Lindsey Kopacz

Thank you! I'm glad you loved it!

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Eri Pançi

Great read. I'm a junior front-end and didn't know anything about accessibility to be honest.
Thank you for the insight and I hope more company and clients will focus on this in the near future.

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Jonathan Burnhill

Hi, your twitter link shows account doesn't exist.

And thanks for a great post more empathy is needed for the user no mater the situation!