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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Sep 12, 2013 10:11AM

Denis Boudreau wrote:

> But when I analyze the whole thing coldly, I think the perspective of
> expanding the understanding of developers to view accessibility as a more
> than just the blind over the next few years is still more interesting than
> the perspective of continuing to talk about alt text to developers who've
> never heard of accessibility.


That's interesting, and might be the root of different assumptions. I very
rarely meet developers who don't know about alt text and screen readers
(even if they haven't used one). The main things I need to get across is
the expansion to things like keyboard accessibility, magnification, and you
can use JavaScript but need to make it accessible...

We've had a pretty good web-standards and accessibility scene in the UK,
perhaps it's moved on a bit here and I get different issues?

-Alastair