Why am I doing this? First thing first, the purpose here is to gather knowledge in both ways.

I have a few experience with accessibility, much more in web development.

So far I was thinking about accessibility as checkboxes to complete when building different applications. In the recent times, I came across different statistics about the amount of people living with disabilities.

I started to use VoiceOver on different pages. The results are truly staggering.

If you have hard time believing me, check any of the pages with VoiceOver that you haven’t visited in a while or try to read your favourite news site with closed eyes this morning while drinking your coffee. You will be surprised. Cookies, advertisement banners, missing elements and so. The internet is the gateway to our modern world, and this is the very first place we should provide equality.

Why accessibility is not a to-do list to run over

• WebAIM survey found that, as of 2020, 98.1% of homepages of the top 1 million websites had at least one WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) failure. WCAG is the standard for web accessibility.
• In a study by WebAIM, 71.5% of websites they evaluated had low or very low mobile accessibility.
• A study by the Return on Disability Group estimates that the global disability market represents a potential market of more than $8 trillion in annual disposable income.
• According to the Pew Research Center, as of 2021, 30% of adults with disabilities in the United States use assistive technology or devices to interact with digital content and devices.
• In the United States, the number of web accessibility-related lawsuits has been steadily increasing. In 2020, there were over 2,000 digital accessibility lawsuits filed in federal courts.

This is definitely a topic that we should focus on to provide the possibility for everyone to use the applications we build with the same experience as people without disabilities.