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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Sep 8, 2014 2:50PM

Personally, I think it's much more important to teach developers how to understand accessibility and how it works, such as the most
common ATs and the differences between them, how these interact with web content, how markup effects this functionality, how
scripting such as event handling and focus movement should match various element roles, how to check this information in the
Accessibility Tree and what the Accessibility Tree is, and how to use the various specs and guidelines to confirm implementation
design.

For developers receptive to this, I've found this usually results in much more accessible software, because the developer is better
informed and understands the concepts being applied, and how to identify the issues when they aren't working properly.

In contrast, when piecemeal information is fed to developers incrementally, it's like looking at one leaf of a tree at a time, and
trying to get them to imagine what the whole tree looks like using only that information.

[For the record: What follows is a joke. It does not in any way promote the disparaging of any person or group, including those with
disabilities. Nor does it endorse the harming of others, physically or otherwise, including the ignition of any individual for any
reason, willing or otherwise. Nor does it in any way, implied or otherwise, endorse the use of humor for any reason.]

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