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(for those of us from non-default countries please modify as apply)<p>Why is it that you can get people to take the law seriously when it comes to ensuring there's a wheelchair ramp for a new building, but not for a comparatively simpler and cheaper thing like a website that a screen reader can use?<p>I know that laws are slow to change and the changers of laws mostly treat computers with bewilderment and suspicion. I know that only thirty years ago the web really was the wild west whereas there have been building codes for thousands of years.<p>What I don't understand is how there seems to be neither voluntary compliance not significant enforcement.
This would be drastically different pre-2010 before everything became a javascript application. Back then the majority of web sites and their pages actually contained text for readers to read. Nowadays everything is just unreadable javascript code that <i>might</i> execute and produce accessible text if all the stars are aligned.<p>The web as a javascript application delivery system is the worst thing that has happened for accessibility in the last 30 years. But it sure does make it cheaper for companies/institutions to develop in teams and run. And they can even monetize the user this way.