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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Sep 8, 2014 8:58AM

>"if I am using this look and feel provided by my manager, and I am using this web framework provided by my department, tell me how to make everything perfectly accessible without me understanding accessibility, having accessibility testers, or spending substantially more time."

Unfortunately this always comes back to the same problem, that developers aren't typically trained in accessible programming techniques at the same time they are learning how to program, thus ensuring that every framework and JS library that is built for enterprise production will have the same problems.

Many universities are starting to do this, but developers in the wild still are usually totally ignorant of these concepts when learning JavaScript for example, which is necessary in order to properly meld HTML, CSS, and scripting behaviors accessibly within reusable components.