It's really this thing that gets me.
Chris Coyier,
Jul 14, 2024
We all agree that websites should be accessible, but what's the best way to accomplish this? Chris Coyier considers two options: either building accessibility into the browser, or building it into the website. Both options have a cost, he suggests. The better option is to build it into browsers, since the reach would be universal, but this means charging the browser users who need the feature, and they tend not to have a lot of money. So companies have chosen to focus on making websites accessible, a much more expensive and less universal option (and one that needs to be backed by legislation), because people who create websites tend to have more money. Browsers are expensive to develop and maintain - there has been a lot of discussion about Mozilla's acquisition of an advertising company (and the addition of the Privacy Preserving Attribution API in its latest release (see this thread)). And yet they are essential public infrastructure - the sort of thing a public service should provide, so we don't have to depend on corporate sponsorship to (say) get the news. Or pay extra if we want to browse the web while blind. Image: Intuit.
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