[lilsunnybee]

So instead of having any sort of standards and accessibility best practices taught and adopted industry-wide, that take into account a much larger spectrum of disabilities, the programmers reading this should just go and spend an unspecified amount of time using a screen reader from now on?

[hluska]

Definitely not, but as the OP wrote, you don't start at the HTML5 spec if you want to learn to make web pages. Learning to use a screen reader and actually testing sites with it is not only a very important skill to have, but it will give developers more insight and perspective into accessibility. Standards can fill in the gaps, but I believe you still need a 'wow' moment when you feel completely lost on a website.

[lilsunnybee]

I misinterpreted your suggestion, and appreciate the clarification.

[hluska]

Thanks very much for your question. I didn't realize what a horrible job of writing I did until I read your response!!