If even one out of every ten accessibility advocates/experts/etc. did these things, then all these bugs would’ve been fixed years ago.
Maybe you’re aware of an OOM more accessibility advocates than I am, but I come across all sorts of well-written blog posts explaining this or that bug, which browser/etc. it happens in, and how to work around it. That’s most of the bullet points, although it might not be in the bug tracker of choice for the project.
What people aren’t doing, as far as I have seen, is starting pooled-funds bug bounties for these things. People pass the collection plate for childhood cancer, especially since I’m told that September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, but not bugfixing.
This is not insensible: all sorts of people tend to be unwilling to set aside the cost of a new cell phone to fix one bug apiece that, generally speaking, is encountered in one’s day job.
And there are a lot of accessibility bugs out there, some of which are quite old. I can only assume that accessibility bugs aren’t treated massively more seriously than anything else in the WebKit or Firefox Bugzillas.
While the world would be a better place if bug-bounty collection plates were more popular, I can see why they’re not as popular as I’d like.
Maybe you’re aware of an OOM more accessibility advocates than I am, but I come across all sorts of well-written blog posts explaining this or that bug, which browser/etc. it happens in, and how to work around it. That’s most of the bullet points, although it might not be in the bug tracker of choice for the project.
What people aren’t doing, as far as I have seen, is starting pooled-funds bug bounties for these things. People pass the collection plate for childhood cancer, especially since I’m told that September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, but not bugfixing.
This is not insensible: all sorts of people tend to be unwilling to set aside the cost of a new cell phone to fix one bug apiece that, generally speaking, is encountered in one’s day job.
And there are a lot of accessibility bugs out there, some of which are quite old. I can only assume that accessibility bugs aren’t treated massively more seriously than anything else in the WebKit or Firefox Bugzillas.
While the world would be a better place if bug-bounty collection plates were more popular, I can see why they’re not as popular as I’d like.