#Disabled folks, particular people who use assistive technology for web browsing, how do you feel #accessibility has been improving or not over the last few years?

This is for a talk about accessibility I want to write, and I'm interested in the actual human impact of accessibility regulations and compliance. Boosts and thoughts welcome!

If anyone knows of any existing research on this topic I'd love to know, a look around Google Scholar didn't come up with much

  • Getting generally better (42%, 11 votes)
  • Getting generally worse (46%, 12 votes)
  • No real change (19%, 5 votes)
  • Some specific things are getting worse (pls reply) (19%, 5 votes)
26 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago

This entry was edited (1 month ago)
in reply to Chad

It's kinda yo-yo effect. Some devs are more aware of accessibility, even AI agents help sometimes, but on the other end lots of devs don't want to learn and use semantic HTML, and I as accessibility specialist often see absolute nightmares like seven spans inside a div, inside a heading, inside a button, inside a link, all of this inside eight layers of divs and spans — I almost don't exaggerate. for instance, in one of my last audits I saw a clickable div realized as link, inside it lots of stuff, including headings, images, buttons, lists and what not, which is absolutely against all standards, from HTML to WCAG. Anyway, it's varied, I'd say.