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General [Q&A] Accessibility: whose responsibility is it anyway?

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      CommentAuthorbobbykjack
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2009
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    I've been thinking a lot lately about small improvements browser manufacturers could make to improve accessibility, things like improving how text size can be rescaled, beyond the current mish-mash of minimum font size + text zoom + page zoom. On the general issue, however, I'd love to hear your opinion on how the greatest advances can be made and where they're, realistically, most likely to come from. In short, who's most responsible for improving the state of accessibility: content providers or browser developers?
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    It probably comes down to browser developers if we're being realistic, but that's not to say that designers and developers don't have an important role to play, because we do. We're the ones creating the 'products' to be used on the browsers, so in that sense we have a certain amount of power to shape the way features are used. It's hard to quantify, but if we all started making sites that used RGBa colour exclusively, for instance, then maybe it'd give certain browser vendors more of an incentive to move faster on implementing newer technologies.

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