Terrible for accessibility though. I'm sure screen readers have come a long way, but the core issue we dealt with 15-20 years ago was that the convenience of an imap wasn't worth breaking accessibility standards.
With more of our traditional desktop services having moved to mobile and now moving back to the browser, I'm more concerned about this creating another wave of accessibility limitations caused by a petty convenience for dev.
I don't want to sound off like an activist, but I'd like to see that someone with limited mobility or sight can equitably access services they, as much as we, will sooner or later have to depend on as current apps and software lose support and phase out. The Net has always been a place where a person's only limitation should be their choice to not commit their time to learning how to use it. Let's stand by that now more than ever, or I fear we'll hand an uncontested victory to the idiots in Silicon Valley who want us to adapt to how they want us to use the Net.
With more of our traditional desktop services having moved to mobile and now moving back to the browser, I'm more concerned about this creating another wave of accessibility limitations caused by a petty convenience for dev.
I don't want to sound off like an activist, but I'd like to see that someone with limited mobility or sight can equitably access services they, as much as we, will sooner or later have to depend on as current apps and software lose support and phase out. The Net has always been a place where a person's only limitation should be their choice to not commit their time to learning how to use it. Let's stand by that now more than ever, or I fear we'll hand an uncontested victory to the idiots in Silicon Valley who want us to adapt to how they want us to use the Net.