[austin-cheney]

It’s not just knowing HTML as in writing a bunch div tags and patting yourself on the back. If you aren’t able to achieve at least 80% WCAG AA compliance you can’t write HTML.

Most frontend devs have no idea what any of that means. But then it seems everyone who can write 3 lines of code professionally refers to themselves as an ”engineer”.

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Yes, it's literally about being able to use HTML effectively and knowing what you are doing, then you know HTML. I'm not sure why you bring up some arbitrary accessibility guidelines, that has no bearing if someone is using HTML correctly and neither would I gatekeep the "frontend" label on some arbitrary "must pass this particular standard", never heard something so outlandish when it comes to who could call themselves frontend developer or not.

[austin-cheney]

I suspect this unintentionally satisfies my conclusion.

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Only if you're willfully ignorant of the wider discussion.

[austin-cheney]

Obviously. Me having technical knowledge you appear to not have on the discussion at hand makes me ignorant of the discussion at hand.