7 things that turn good accessibility into great accessibility
“It’s easy to pick on people who do a crappy job at accessibility. Why don’t you write an article on how to get people good at accessibility to up their game?” I was asked in one PM. Challenge accepted.
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The difference between good and great is a chasm the size of the Grand Canyon
— Rob Light, Creative Artists Agency (speaking about Dua Lipa)
This article is the other end of the spectrum from the article I wrote last week entitled “10 things that indicate designers have no clue about accessibility”
Almost 98 % of the top million web pages are completely inaccessible, with almost 60 accessibility violations per page on average. So it is easy to…