Short PSA to #WebDev do not, do not, enable #Accessibility overlays! I was just on a website where the AccessiBe toolbar actually made text completely disappear and turn plain text paragraphs into a DIV, somehow, and a hidden element. I'm telling you, seek out an accessibility ready theme instead. #Wordpress has hundreds, and Shopify has them now too. You. Are. Wasting. Your. Money. On these toolbars. #Internet
@weirdwriter At a previous job, one of our quarter goals was to make our website more accessible, something I was passionate about and had been asking to work on. Then suddenly one of these toolbars appeared on the site and the task was marked complete.
It tanked our site's performance, and we ended up doing all kinds of hacky shit to mitigate it as much as possible. A few weeks later I read an article about how these toolbars usually make your site harder for people with disabilities to use. 🙄
@dhamlinmusic That is a level of irony I can't handle today! LMAO! I just checked their website and they didn't even pick an accessibility ready theme.
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