I would very much like to be better at building websites that handle assistive technologies like screen readers well. I don't have a lot of blind users to worry about because they don't let you be a firefighter if you're blind.

But a lot of firefighters are people who simply did not do well in school, even the very senior ones, and that's because they are often very clever people who are of an age where things like dyslexia were just not diagnosed early or often.

So now I deal with a lot of people who use assistive technologies to help with dyslexia and related comorbidities. I have dyscalculia that wasn't diagnosed until I was 19 and at uni, and even then it was diagnosed initially by my mate's Educational Psychology undergrad girlfriend in the pub one evening. That was in the early 90s and we're better at it now - but not by much.

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wouldbecouldbe 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah i don't think it's worth doing for every web app. But I do think it's fair that for instance government websites try to meet these criteria.

	▲	ErroneousBosh 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's funny what you have to do to tick a box on a Government form. A long time ago when I was relatively new in the job I thought I was being pranked (ohoho let's noise up the new guy) because I got asked to take a record when I went to site to repair network stuff, of which sites had a wheelchair-accessible entrance, accessible from the street. o_O All of them? There's a door at the front and the back with a gentle ramp down to street level, flat access into the building, and the door is like twelve feet wide and fourteen feet high which is big enough for even the most impractically large wheelchair, surely?