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Re:Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You by rchaud on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:53AM (#18726531)
Why does their need to be a requirement? Making a website accessible to individuals using screen readers is the right thing to do; it shouldn't need to be mandated.
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Re:Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You by joshstrange on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:11PM (#18726749)
> it shouldn't need to be mandated.

When have you ever know a for-profit business to care if it's not mandated? They only care if it affects the bottom line. As a developer at a company I don't have a ton of say over what we spend time on accessibility-wise and even if I was able to get that code in the QA time to test it would never be approved.

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Re:Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You by d357r0y3r on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:12PM (#18726764)
I'm not saying there does need to be a requirement.

Businesses are not charity. If it doesn't make financial sense to make their website accessible, then they won't unless they're forced to. I'm making no value judgments, this is simply the reality on the ground.

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Re:Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You by dotcode on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:24AM (#18815263)
> Businesses are not charity […] I'm making no value judgements

… except that you appear to adjudge a negative financial value to accessibility compliance, when in fact the opposite is true.

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