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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by threatofrain on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:14PM (#27132705)
You're talking about very different issues of accessibility, one of which is the financial accessibility of client technology and reliable web connection.

That is attacked through very different means. For example, FB being free and ad funded addresses that issue; but this is a business model and not a technological standard. Society subsidizing technology is another possibility. But these very serious issues of access and the solutions to negotiate with them are very different from purely technical solutions to access.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:19PM (#27132752)
HyperText Markup Language is accessible, doesn't require a powerful computer, and can be copy-pasted into a translator.

If your website is unreadable in view-source:, it's probably inaccessible in some way. It's not hard to make an accessible website. If it's hard to make that accessible website look the way you want? Tough luck; hire a competent web designer, or scale back your artistic vision, because you sure ain't sacrificing the ability for people to actually use your website for some pretty colours, are you now?

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