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From: Guy Hickling
Date: Apr 5, 2016 7:36AM

I think Brooks Newton has summarised the current position excellently.
His comment about how we all "must push harder for OS, user agent, and
AT engineers to do their own bug checking" is very true.

Further to that, perhaps the proposed European Accessibility Act will
put a bit more pressure on manufacturers, particularly of computers,
operating systems and smart phones (and their "user interface and
functionality design") which are some of the specific items it covers,
to get it right before they put out new releases. With that
legislation (and subsequent implementation by the individual
countries) accessibility bugs will no longer be merely bugs, but will
become actual infringements against the law.
It won't stop these problems ever happening, of course (a bug is by
definition unintentional). But they often get through due to not doing
enough testing, so the EAA should help raise the stakes and pressure
the software manufacturers to pay more attention to the accessibility
testing of their products.

Regards,
Guy Hickling