From the course: Building a Resilient Web
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Inaccessibility
From the course: Building a Resilient Web
Inaccessibility
- [Narrator] Have you ever gone to a website, filled out a form, clicked the submit button, and discovered either that it doesn't work or that the form just gets cleared and you have to fill in all the information again? I'm pretty sure you have. This is, in a very small and trivial way, an experience of the inaccessibility of the web. You're unable to achieve a goal because something is not working correctly or does not work for your circumstances and there's nothing you can do about it. Accessibility is a core feature of the web platform. In fact, there's a whole section in the HTML design principles dedicated to universal access and accessibility. And if you use the web platform out-of-the-box without any fancy CSS or JavaScript, it is accessible. So why then is it that when people who fall outside the dominant user group, those who use alternative access methods like voice control or joysticks or text-to-speech or…
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