- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:08:55 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 19/09/2019 07:09, Sean Murphy (seanmmur) wrote: > Steve > > Is your statement for all code inspection tools? Userway is not a "code inspection tool". It's a bolt-on self-voicing feature and restyling/user-styles tool. It promises to fix things so that you as a site owner don't have to worry about fixing your actual site - which is rubbish. The tool can paper over some minor things, but garbage-in/garbage-out. On a site that is already fairly accessible and well made, these tools add a few extra assistive tech functionalities as in-page tools, and have some minor value (for the scenarios where users don't even know they could benefit from features like speech output, or high contrast, or similar, and don't know the tools they already have at OS/browser level; or for situations where the users aren't on their own machine - internet café, library, etc - and can't customise their experience to suit their needs). But the claims that many of these widgets make (that they will take care of issues for you without you having to even worry about them / consider them) are often FAR removed from reality. P -- Patrick H. Lauke www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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