Top accessibility complaints from people with disabilities
What bothers me more than people designing inaccessable sites is their excuse of &quot;well, why put extra money and effort into catering to such a small segment of the population?&quot;<p>Videos released without captions are OK, because &quot;they&#x27;re free!&quot; Websites without Aria tags are OK, because &quot;screen readers just need to get better.&quot; Low contrast fonts are OK, because &quot;my design won&#x27;t work with different font colors.&quot;<p>Everyone who doesn&#x27;t die in their prime of life will eventually be disabled in some fashion; but so few people really seem to realize this (or care).<p>EDIT: Good question - do I practice what I preach? Yes, I do. I&#x27;m in an SRE position, and a few of our developers are hard of hearing, so I caption the training videos I make, without asking if they need them. No blind folks, but I make sure to use reasonable styles and page layouts to support fading eyesight. I don&#x27;t set up Aria tags myself, because I don&#x27;t have any users who need them at the moment.<p>None of my external or OS contributions are to UI related projects, so nothing of note there.