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Re: How doing Accessibility helps in reducing server load ?

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From: John Hicks
Date: May 15, 2013 3:46AM

There is another aspect here, which is surplus code.
Have you ever seen some of the code generated by CMS packages or tools.
My recent memory is of the GWT (google widget toolkit).

The number of embedded divs you can have just for a simple label on the
screen somewhere is amazing.

Last time I checked, GWT did not generate accessible code, but what I am
saying goes beyond that. We seem to be at the (I hope) tail end of an era
where no consideration whatever was given to how you get something onto the
screen. Tables where each cell contained a one celled table, etc.

I think that Accessibility practices are about thinking of the bigger
picture, and realising that
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<span> hello</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

is just dumb. (but really you see this in some generated code).

I don't imagine that it helps speedy DOM calculations either, in general
(client).

It seems that excessive coding, inaccessibility, and non-standards
implementations all go together.

The stack of divs above is not inaccessible, but... if you were working on
accessibility, you'd notice it, right, and say to yourself... what the h*^£
is that?!

Good day to all

John
Paris