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by Bahamut 3666 days ago
As a maintainer of a major UI library for the web, I sympathize, but I also find that it also takes significant time to get accessibility done right as well. There is a lot of research involved for most people, precisely because they are not blind. I find that it is time consuming and doesn't offer as much bang for the effort, which is a shame & something I know I need to work on.

I wish there is a better solution here, but I don't know what it is. It does offer a good opportunity to make an impact though for any aspiring developers.
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hirsin 3666 days ago
Do any large companies use your library? If so, they likely have requirements to make their sites accessible. It may be worth finding out if they've modified your library in any way to make it accessible (or simply easier to make the end result accessible) and can submit the changes back. We're looking at doing that for a table library (slickgrid, e.g. [1]) we use, as we'd prefer to help an existing in-use library over doing more NIH work.

[1] https://github.com/6pac/SlickGrid/issues/37

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Bahamut 3665 days ago
They do - the library is UI Bootstrap: https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap . I know many Fortune 500s use it.
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hueving 3666 days ago
>that it is time consuming and doesn't offer as much bang for the effort

This is true for many types of disabilities. Unless people are personally affected, the vast majority will put in minimal effort.

I wonder if you could find some grant money to help fund work on it.

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