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Unlocking Digital Inclusion: The Need for Web Accessibility in 2023
Building apps for the masses — colorblind, people with motor & cognitive issues
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General people who do not suffer from partial or complete disability can access the web apps smoothly but the others who do suffer, do not. When we as web developers are not sensitive and empathetic enough to consider the challenges people with disability go through, we end up creating sub-par products (in a way that discriminates against them).
There are two major examples of the same:
A blind man denied food at Domino’s:
The food chain’s website (a few years ago) was not accessible to a blind man and hence he was unable to order food. As a result, he sued Domino’s. The blind man, Guillermo Robles was unable to use the website/app even though he was using a screen reader.
This brings out another point for the web developers here blind people or people using screen readers are not exposed to the same DOM that the general audience does. They are exposed to the equivalent “Accessibility Tree”
The court announced the decision in favor of Guillermo Robles and set an example for the other big conglomerates. The court and the accessibility advocates celebrated this and educated the world that if the…
