Have you recently visited a website and been told to press Alt + 1 or some other key combination to invoke some version of a screen reader mode? If so, you may have been led to believe the company cared enough about its customers with disabilities to make their website accessible. The truth is actually more disturbing than we suspected. In a recent episode of Mosen At Large, Jonathan Mosen spotlighted one of these predatory companies falsely promoting itself as a revolutionary force in web accessibility. AccessiBe claims to use artificial intelligence to transform thousands of websites in the amount of time it would have taken to overhaul one. In fact, the company’s vision is to make the entire web fully accessible by 2025. On the surface, the intent sounds noble. Who wouldn’t want to support a business venture promising to make the web more inclusive? The problem is that when you look behind the marketing, companies like AccessiBe, EqualWeb, MaxAccess, and UserWay just to name a few, are capitalizing on the disparities that insist on preserving the old doctrine of separate but equal, and just like the old doctrine, public property like the web continues to be anything but … [Read more...] about The Fast Food Approach to Web Accessibility
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