Mastodawn

How the hell am I supposed to even argue with this?

Coworker about accessibility (in the context of "why don't devs/their bosses book the accessibility training for frontend developers we offer?"):

"for me as a front-end developer, accessibility is a niche issue. I have a hundred other problems to deal with. The fact that a small group of 2–4% of the market has trouble using my website is, frankly, none of my concern. Especially when it requires a huge amount of extra effort to implement and maintain. Either a UI library handles it for me, or I simply don’t do it."

I'm quite helpless in the face of this major fail of both human decency AND work ethic. And I assume they aren't a singular phenomenon, they just trust me enough to speak frankly.

#accessibility #a11y #webdevelopment

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ragman 3d ago

@lizzard I've found that mentioning government regulations sometimes works.

Nothing devs fear more than the word "lawyer"!

I don't know about Germany, but I've seen businesses in the US be forced to at least do an accessibility audit by threat of lawsuit.

(I really like this post talking about it in the industry at large: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/because-fuck-you-why-consumer-choice-is-being-stripped-away-and-how-the-tech-industry-profits-from-it/#:~:text=what%20actually%20changes%20things)

But I'm sorry that appealing to human decency isn't working. It's awful to realize that people around you just... don't care :(

“because fuck you”: why consumer choice is being stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it — fireborn

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sennomo 2d ago

@ragman @lizzard One time I mentioned government regulations and the response from a 3rd party provider was, "We understand that the President is going to roll back those regulations, so we don't we don't want to invest in such concerns."

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lizzzzard

@sennomo *sigh* 😑
@ragman