Testing accessibility in our extensions
When you are not familiar with accessibility, you usually think of it as something people with disabilities need. But at any time in our lives, everyone will be in a position where the environment is not right and they cannot use their senses at full potential. Think, for instance, when you are checking your mobile phone under direct sunlight or when grabbing bags and need to perform a quick route check on your device. You will need a good interface that allows you to see correctly under low contrast and with minimum interaction as you can only use one hand properly.
The myth around accessibility in web development, which is that it is very expensive to deliver an accessible product, is far from true. When you abide by current web standards and use semantic HTML in your frontend, you can achieve a high level of accessibility.
This myth probably comes from the fact that there is not a good automatic way of testing accessibility. In a web...