Website feeback

This is actually a feedback on the "website feedback" form... which I can't
seem to be able to fill:

    https://github.com/w3c/w3c-website

After a long conversation with github's "accessibility" team two years
ago it became clear that their main job is to try to hide accessibility
problems, rather than do anything to solve them.  Their use of captchas
in particular, is one of the worst examples of this bad practice which
is designed to block genuine users while letting malicious ones in,
as long as they don't have a disability.  So this might be the reason
a form hosted on github is simply inaccessible to me.

There also seems to be an assumption that everybody will be using a GUI
browser, and then they will have to bolt on top of that other tools to
undo the extra accessibility problems created by using graphics instead
of text.  I tried submitting the form with several browsers, but it
appears that nothing actually happens. The "form submit" button is a
script, which I guess might check the form before submitting, but as you
certainly know it's a bad idea to trust a client-side script to verify
the data, so your server will have to re-verify it anyway. In other words,
there is absolutely no need to stop submitting if the script won't work,
and on the other hand doing so will block people from providing feedback,
in fact it will block exactly the people for whom accessibility is important.

Thank you for your time.  And I wish you luck in finding an accessibility
expert who actually cares about accessibility and listens to people.  If
the accessibility consultants used by various companies are anything to
go by, this person might not even exist.

Claudio Calvelli

Received on Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:42:50 UTC