Finding Solutions: Toward Maximum Accessibility
What broke down in the cases we’ve examined here wasn’t just HTML code. What broke down was a process, and that’s one of our key points here. Even with the best intentions in the world, text-only variants are almost inevitably second tier; they’re poor cousins to the (media-) rich folks at the fancy-dress ball. They receive far less attention from designers, developers, and managers than the media-rich primary pages do, and it shows. Separate is not equal.
The Amazon Access site raises similar issues. There’s no evil there, either. Just a misunderstanding, perhaps even an inevitable one. Those of us in the accessibility community have been “selling” accessibility, in part, by making the point that ...
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