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by TheFuzzball 849 days ago
A toxic article full of untruths and generalisations.

> You have to teach React developers the difference between the <Link> and <a> tag, and how <a> doesn't swap nor replace your page content, it loads an entirely new page.

This is more of a complaint about JavaScript than "frameworks". Any default browser behaviour can be prevented, so when you click an `<a>` and it does the same thing as a `<button>`, a lot of devs will think "I'm done here". They need to be educated on accessibility and why it matters.

Sometimes the economics of a project make spending the time to make your advertising microsite that'll be live for 3 months not really worth making WGAC 3.0 compliant, sorry, welcome to the real world.

> But, and it's a tough pill to swallow for many… WordPress. It gets you from 0 to 97% in an instant, and the last remaining 3% is offered by some plugin, or a minimum amount of code knowledge.

facepalm