> This post is about you and me. Scores indicate the quality of our apps and sites, but we must not trust these numbers thoughtlessly. We have to understand that automatic testing is just a first step.<p>I run my own scoring tool website best practices and SEO, and often get support requests from users who are worried or annoyed they can't get a perfect score. Some of my general views here:<p>- Scores serve more as a minimal baseline that your site should meet and there's always limitations to what the score measures. A low score means it's very likely there's some bad issues to fix and a high score means your site is probably in good shape, but this should only be used as a starting point. You can usually trick scoring tools as well so the score is assuming you're playing fair.<p>- Perfects scores usually aren't possible for non-trivial sites. There's always trade-offs to make, including if it's worth a large development effort to fix something that's not a big deal. Only you can decide what's worth the effort to fix and what your site's audience will care about most.<p>- Because of the above, it's not usually meaningful to make in-depth comparisons of scores from different sites. Scores are better used as a rough metric to tell if your own site is improving after you make changes.
If only he'd used his talents for good, not evil.<p>Seriously, though, I swear I've encountered some of these before. If TBL was dead, he'd be rolling in his grave.
Maybe not the forum to ask, but I have added an animation to my homepage - an image appears after it is loaded and slowly glides to its new resting place (different from initial location).<p>I suspect this is why my LCP is crap. But I'm unsure of a way to make the lighthouse score better without removing the glide animation. Do I have no recourse?<p><a href="https://videohubapp.com/en/" rel="nofollow">https://videohubapp.com/en/</a>
A bit silly. Most of the examples are intentionally hiding content with explicit commands no one would ever use, and then saying it is inaccessible.<p>That said, Lighthouse should do things like "use perceptual parsing trchniques to compare the visible content to the standard screen reader parsed content".
> Designing the most wheel-chair inaccessible building that meets all accessibility codes!<p>> btw guys this isn't really about accessibility guidelines it's just about, uh, the importance of not relying on those guidelines, or something. totally not me venting about having to follow accessibility guidelines in the first place as many of my professional colleagues are known for doing.