WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Interesting article of 10 million pages results for a11y

for

From: Murphy, Sean
Date: May 22, 2020 4:31AM

a friend pointed me to Steve Faulkner blog about this called Bolt-on Accessibility – 5 gears in reverse


Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > on behalf of Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 8:21:38 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Interesting article of 10 million pages results for a11y

[External Email] This email was sent from outside the organisation – be cautious, particularly with links and attachments.

I was about to write pretty much the same. There is also the issue that the report is totally biased towards the sort of issues that their tool can detect. My experience of automated testing tools is that what they report often bears no relation to the user experience because of all the issues they can't detect. Indeed, we are now seeing websites that are coded so badly that automated tools can't find anything wrong with them even though they are completely inaccessible.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd