Comment by robin_reala

Comment by robin_reala 18 hours ago

Reminder that for a surprisingly large number of sites, you’re legally required to be accessible starting in 11 days time in the EU under the European Accessibility Act.[1] Any e-commerce system has to meet WCAG 2.1 level AA, where e-commerce is defined as an online system designed to conclude a contract for a product or service between a business and a consumer.

The only real get-out clause is if you’re a microenterprise: “an enterprise which employs fewer than 10 persons and which has an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 2 million or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 2 million”.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/882/oj/eng (Edit: fixed URL from Y-bar)

Y-bar 18 hours ago

Your URL seems to have expired.

In any case it is "Document 32019L0882" which does go into effect on June 28:

> Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services (Text with EEA relevance)

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/882/oj/eng (I think this one is permanent)

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robin_reala 17 hours ago

Thanks, not sure what I copied from my browser but that’s the correct one, yep.

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amarcheschi 14 hours ago

I studied wcag in a course in uni this semester, it is truly mind blowing how experts were gathered to make a list of "list of all things you need to know about accessible webpages" and yet so many websites don't care about it. I mean, it takes just some scrolling to understand that they're very useful tips. And having something accessible might make it for a better experience for regular people too

Partially unrelated, but at a venue I work at there's the console managing stage lights that has the button to save and the button to delete the saved presets next to each other. That's one of the worst things that I could imagine for an interface

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