>> Why would you spend time and money optimizing for a tiny percentage of users?
I also didn't like the tone of the article. And some arguments were pretty far fetched if you ask me. But this is actually a very valid point. Its not very hard to optimize websites for accessibility -- but its almost never a hard requirement except for government websites.
Oh and, one thing I found particularly interesting about this site:
Well, the page really loads in three requests, minus the images. It lazy-loads the images and player afterward (and drops them into the page without reflowing). It looks like the the images come in document order, too, so the visible part of the page is fully ready to view, images, included, before all the images load.
Something is a little screwy with the page though -- the main HTML page, which is 27K, takes two seconds. Some infrastructure somewhere could be running/configured better.
I also didn't like the tone of the article. And some arguments were pretty far fetched if you ask me. But this is actually a very valid point. Its not very hard to optimize websites for accessibility -- but its almost never a hard requirement except for government websites.
Oh and, one thing I found particularly interesting about this site:
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