But not for US websites, we don't want to anger the Orange right?

What a wild image choice

With the description "At the studios of New Graphic in Dublin, designers work with clients to make their websites more accessible".

The new act means that any kind of digital product, be it a website, an app, or an ATM, needs to be accessible

Is there some kind of rulebook to follow or is this some kind of vague requirement like "be good in life"? If there isn't a checklist or something for people and companies to tick off, then I don't see how this will be successful.

Actually, I found the annexes on the page for the European Accessibility Act, but they aren't very specific. If I had to create an "accessible product", that annex would be of very little help as it states often "it has to be accessible".

Accessibility is very important, it's great that the EU cares, and this is a big step, but I can't help but feel it doesn't really hit the mark.

I'm all for this but please can it be facilitated in a non-intrusive way for people who don't need accessibility options? I'm fed up with having popups on every single website I visit telling me to opt out or in for cookie settings, I'd really rather not have another popup saying "Would you like to use our accessibility functions? OK or Cancel"

Accessibility is sorely needed everywhere but it's pretty wild that they're tackling it online before tackling it in the real world.

One of my close friends here in NL can't use the train station in their neighborhood because they use a wheelchair and the platform can only be reached by stairs. They would need to go to the station in the city center, but busses aren't wheelchair accessible, so they would need to call an expensive and extremely inconvenient transportation service. So they pretty much never travel.

There are almost no bathrooms in public and the ones that do exist are not free and are usually not accessible to people with many kinds of physical disabilities. In my city center the only bathroom is in a mall, which does have an elevator between the parking garage and the ground floor, but not to the bathrooms, which are one floor higher.

Old cities are hard to retrofit! But if this super rich country, world-renowned for amazing infrastructure and creative architecture, hasn't tackled this problem yet, we have a bigger problem. It's a cultural issue.

Every person will become disabled at some point, unless they suddenly and tragically die early.

That sounds cool in theory, but just adds cost for independent studios when making something new. And while some of the guidelines are easy to follow and don't add pretty much any work, some of them are hard to implement.

The elderly? I can already go into settings and make the fonts larger, or Shift+ to make everything bigger for my failing eyesight. As far as keyboards and meese, just make the ones designed around ergonomics affordable. Anything that is accepting of my arthritic fingers would be good for everyone. Subsidies for open source projects that include accessibility would also help. With their limited resources, accessibility, too often, gets relegated to "maybe later" status. Corporations can raise prices, open source projects might die on the vine without help.

Good luck catering to the willfully (learned helplessness) tec- inept old.