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Sommer Panage (sommer@macaw.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 01:32:13 JST Sommer Panage
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Grateful to @muan for sharing her story. So often companies let #accessibility become an unsupported labor of love from one or two employees who care deeply—without resources, title, or training. This has happened to me as well as others I know.
It’s unfair to people who rely on accessibility.
And so companies skate by with this model until “something” happens: a law suit, a major acquisition, etc., only then to start taking aaccessibility seriously. https://mastodon.social/@muan/113494844740565000
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  Attached: 1 image I started doing accessibility at GitHub when it had a flat structure (2013) and no one was telling me what to do. In my free time I will just browse the issue backlog and find things I could do. Eventually, I found that there are tons of accessibility issues that are just stale, and a lot of them were just like: this icon button isn’t labeled. I looked at them and thought oh that’s easy. I will fix it. At one point I added so many aria-labels that AT users got mad that they’re getting misused.

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