Accessibility should be your first thought, not an afterthought.

It is rare that I see something on the internet that makes me genuinely angry. But today is one of those days. Take a look at this blog post: https://jacobfilipp.com/care/ Do you see anything wrong here? I’ll give you a hint: try to open this page in your browser’s reader mode. It doesn’t work? Yeah, because the author decided to post an image of handwriting and now the browser isn’t detecting any text!! What does this mean? I can’t use the built in text-to-speech because there is no text I can’t open the page in reader mode, which means I can’t adjust the contrast and have to read black-on-brownish-gray I can’t change the font size Insult to injury, he then writes backwards for a couple paragraphs. So even if I had a screenreader that could use optical character recognition to read text from images, it would have just started saying gibberish at that point. At the bottom of the page, the author reveals he actually went to some significant effort to make the text copy-paste capable.…