Re:Accessibility Through Semantic HTML
by paulryanrogers on Saturday December 30, 2017 @11:01AM
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"Currently they're supposed to be happy to make do with devices developed in the 1930s."
Legs are billions of years old and wheels where invented thousands of years ago. Yet we still use them were they remain most effective. No doubt there is room to improve mobility options, but cost and battery capacity are very real constraints. And sometimes mimicking nature too closely is less effective; i.e. planes without flapping wings.
All that to say the web was born more accessible than magazines. It's probably more effective to maintain that semantic heritage than make machines that can translate flattened images like an interpreter. Still, experimentation is great. Nothing wrong with trying to make the machine. I just wouldn't advise that the whole web forget accessibility because the tools _should_ already exist.
Legs are billions of years old and wheels where invented thousands of years ago. Yet we still use them were they remain most effective. No doubt there is room to improve mobility options, but cost and battery capacity are very real constraints. And sometimes mimicking nature too closely is less effective; i.e. planes without flapping wings.
All that to say the web was born more accessible than magazines. It's probably more effective to maintain that semantic heritage than make machines that can translate flattened images like an interpreter. Still, experimentation is great. Nothing wrong with trying to make the machine. I just wouldn't advise that the whole web forget accessibility because the tools _should_ already exist.
EDIT: fixed typo