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nitrogen on March 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Justice Department Issues Web Accessibility Guidan...

If pure semantic HTML isn't accessible then that is the fault of the browser/screenreader, and that's where the burden should lie.

Do a whole fix in one place for the benefit of everyone, rather than making every tiny website make a bunch of half fixes.

zdragnar on March 19, 2022 [–]

That's a nice principle, but legally the burden is on the website owner. We have to live within the reality that browsers do not provide, out of the box, accessible html components in some cases.

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