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> 1) Why bother?

Because the stakes are high enough that 5% validates the engineering effort.

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> 2) If 9+ is 30%, why quibble over the extra 5%

Same answer.

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> 5) The distinction between the two is two independent implementations.

I didn't know that. Thank you for the information. :)

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> 8 #1) Colourblindness (8% of Caucasian Men)

Jesus, really?

Luckily, my sites tend to be monochrome, so I get trapdoored on this.

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> 8 #2) Dyslexia

I wouldn't even know where to begin making a website be dyslexia-sensitive. I don't know anyone affected and don't even know what's important there. Is there a resource about this?

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> 9) The non-presence of ARIA does not make a site inaccessible.

In a question about why we invest no effort in accessibility, it is germane to point out the level of effort you have placed into accessibility.

And, respectfully, that markup.

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> Unfortunately, you are presenting the opposite side of the problem.

I'm just explaining why it isn't gotten right.

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> So you have a little more knowledge about accessibility issues than the OP - but not enough to pass a quick scrutiny.

Yeah, that was my point. My belief is that this limitation that you have correctly observed in me is the defacto case for nearly all web developers. I think it's just something most of us don't know.

Like, write a poignant guide or a learn you some consideration or something. Give people something to read, rather than to point out that they haven't read anything, you know what I mean?

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> Perhaps, what is needed is for you and I to stop being part of the problem of disseminating half-truths

I don't believe that I have done this. I did make an error in naming the kind of recommendation though.

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> spend that time quietly doing our jobs properly

I think that I actually do this. The world is full of a lot of hard, unfair choices, many of them outside my hands. I do my best to support as many people as I can within my time and budget constraints.

Perhaps we disagree on the choices, however.

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> Invest the time to teach someone else how to build accessible websites

Yes, that was my point. Easy to say; too hard, apparently, for either of us to do.




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