This week, the 9th circuit court ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to websites & mobile applications.
Next week, many software teams will add “Accessibility check” to the top of their backlogs
https://www.lflegal.com/2019/01/dominos-ninth-circuit/ …
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Replying to @sarahmei
I work as a barista, and one of our regulars is fairly blind. The only major issue they encounter is paying because you can't enlarge the
@Square POS screen or enable much larger text, at least not in any simple manner. We obvi don't mind talking them through it, but it's a bit1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes -
2/ awkward to straight up ask them how much they want to tip us, plus it takes some agency away from them. This is also the case with a lot of elderly customers who don't have the sharpest eyesight, I hear quite a few complaints about the faintness of the text. I was always
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3/ given good reasons to think about a11y when learning development, but there's a big difference between thinking about what poor semantic tags will do for your PageRank score vs seeing the embarrassment UI design with poor a11y considerations causes.
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