[culi]

> nice to haves like A11y

People get upset about government regulation forcing companies to take accessibility seriously but then people like you come around to prove exactly why that kind of regulation is necessary.

I'd like to live in a world where it wasn't but comments like these make it abundantly clear that we're nowhere close to that world

[jacooper]

> > nice to haves like A11y

> People get upset about government regulation forcing companies to take accessibility seriously but then people like you come around to prove exactly why that kind of regulation is necessary.

You can still have accessibility without having a whole dedicated team for it

> I'd like to live in a world where it wasn't but comments like these make it abundantly clear that we're nowhere close to that world

I meant it as having a dedicated accessibility the team not just going to Twitter and removing all accessibility settings.

[swyx]

how about "we believe so much in a11y being everyone's job, and a legal requirement of doing your job, that we didnt want engineers pawning off that essential task to a dedicated a11y team?"

obviously not true but theres a few ways to slice this news.

[culi]

That's like saying we shouldn't have a security team because being keen on security concerns should be an expectation of every dev. Of course this is true to an extent, but obviously there's a whole field of specialization that would be unrealistic to expect of every single dev to have. Same business with a11y