How do we make web accessibility doable for devs with zero a11y budget?
Most of us don’t work at companies that can afford dedicated accessibility teams or weeks of audits.
We still want the app/blog/tool we ship to be readable by actual humans, but opening WCAG feels like drowning.
Big companies build their own ships across the accessibility ocean.
The rest of us are standing on the shore with a hammer and some planks.
What tools, checks, or one-line fixes would actually let you cross that gap without derailing your weekend project?
Real answers only — no “just hire a consultant” replies please
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Good looking, acessible, "default" themes for popular CSS frameworks?
Like "here's Bootstrap5 default theme, here's another for high contrast, here's another for X problem, etc..."?
Not hidden away in some github repo you find on HN or Reddit, but either collected in some "resources for acessibility" website, or actively promoted by the frameworks themselves.
Maybe an AI tool to get a page source, a screen capture and generate alt texts and aria-roles?
Like "here's Bootstrap5 default theme, here's another for high contrast, here's another for X problem, etc..."?
Not hidden away in some github repo you find on HN or Reddit, but either collected in some "resources for acessibility" website, or actively promoted by the frameworks themselves.
Maybe an AI tool to get a page source, a screen capture and generate alt texts and aria-roles?
ooh this is better than the one I thought, instead of trying to create an accessible framework I guess it's easy both on adoption end to make existing frameworks have an accessible version
I tried running an experiment on this, like how much of forms can be automated ( in terms of aria roles, adding a label when we can recoognise it's a sign up form etc ), I am still researching on what can be safely automated and what must NOT be at any cost, But yeah, like you said discovery is a bigger barrier, maybe a website which hosts collections of all foss a11y tools will help?
I tried running an experiment on this, like how much of forms can be automated ( in terms of aria roles, adding a label when we can recoognise it's a sign up form etc ), I am still researching on what can be safely automated and what must NOT be at any cost, But yeah, like you said discovery is a bigger barrier, maybe a website which hosts collections of all foss a11y tools will help?
How do we bridge the gap between ideals and implementation? There are loads of tools out there for enterprises, but what about startups, devs and students? What tools can make it easier for the everyday people who don't have the resources to build a custom ship across the ocean?