Built-in accessibility: blessing or curse?
summary
Browsers add concrete accessibility: the popover attribute gives aria-expanded, focus return and a details relationship; show-modal and native date pickers add focus management and keyboard support; Chrome fixes increased slider contrast and keyboard date pickers. CMSs like Gutenberg, Drupal editorially and Sanity can flag low contrast, missing alt text or suggest lists. Design systems make patterns repeatable — good or bad — so verify zoom, keyboard navigation and label enforcement rather than assuming built-in features solve everything.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Web accessibility history
- 4:15Disability as spectrum
- 8:31Accessibility in web platform
- 13:24New browser features
- 16:40CMS accessibility
- 19:50User agents as advocates
- 21:37Design systems patterns
- 25:53Balancing accessibility
- 27:14Conclusion and key takeaways
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