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Re: Accessibility Plugins and Widgets - back with a vengeance

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From: Jonathan Pool
Date: Apr 17, 2020 1:06PM

Well, there's always the lawyer's demand letter.

On 2020-04-17 13:47, John E. Brandt wrote:
> I've had announcements of two new websites this past week, both of which are
> related COVID-19 responses and resources, and both of which use one of the
> many "accessibility plugin widget add-ons". Both new sites are promoted as
> "fully accessible" and of course neither are. One used a widget call Recite
> Me and when it was loaded over the site made navigating with VoiceOver on
> the Mac completely useless. Needless to say, the classic access errors were
> all there, color contrast and "click here", none of which would be improved
> by any plugin.
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> The good news is at least these organizations are aware that accessibility
> is important. The bad news is they are looking for expedient solutions and
> are wasting money on these addons.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on how to address this?
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> This was discussed on the WebAIM list last summer (see
> https://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=9283) And Karl Groves
> blogged about this several years ago
> https://karlgroves.com/2016/01/07/on-overlays-as-a-means-of-resolving-websit
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> John E. Brandt
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