The worrying state of our knowledge on accessibility

When I say 'our', I refer to us as an industry. A great, innovative industry that builds the web as we know it.

But unfortunately we don't build for everyone.

We think we do, I mean, it's the Internet, everyone has the Internet. Well, pretty much, but not necessarily in the forms that we view and use it.

As designers and developers who build for the web, I'm sure the vast majority of us know about screen readers, users who have javascript disabled, and people with older browsers.

That's why, when I see a tweet like this one:

@wdtuts: Quite surprised by how many of our readers seem reluctant to make their sites accessible #challengeaccepted

I get rather worried that it paints a picture that if you don't build your site using 'em' instead of 'px', your site isn't as accessible as it could be.



This is why things like The Accessibility Project are very important. It's a great repository of information, and a community driven effort to make learning about creating accessible websites much easier than Googling and scouring through pages and pages of documentation.


And if there's things you know that aren't on there, it's time to contribute.

Either way, get cracking.