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Re:It’s time to kill the web app by mwcampbell on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:12PM (#15322696)
You make a lot of good points.

My concern, as readers who have seen some of my other HN comments may guess, is that the next time someone starts over, they'll neglect accessibility (in the sense of working with screen readers and the like), and people with disabilities will be barred from accessing some important things. "How hard can it be?", the brave new platform developer might think. "I just have to render some widgets on the screen. No bloat!" It's hard enough to make consistent progress in this area; it would help if there were less churn.

Edit: I guess what I (very selfishly) wish for is steady state on UI design and implementation so accessibility can be perfected. I know that's not fair to everyone else though. Other things need improving too.

Re:It’s time to kill the web app by Endy on Sunday September 24, 2017 @02:05AM (#15323540)
As someone who had to help "teach" JAWS about UI elements on a friend's computer back in '05-'07, accessibility should be the first concern. If anything, that's one upside to Google - the spider "sees" like a blind person. The better-crawled a page is, the more likely it is you won't lose massive page elements.
Re:It’s time to kill the web app by chefandy on Saturday September 23, 2017 @10:52PM (#15323028)
FWIW I'd consider it the opposite of selfishness to want to improve accessibility.
Re:It’s time to kill the web app by mwcampbell on Sunday September 24, 2017 @01:32PM (#15325628)
Selfish that, in my heart of hearts, I want what benefits me and my friends (some of them), to the exclusion of what the rest of the industry seems to pursue (churn in UI design and implementation, pursuing the latest fashion in visual design).