When developers know what's expected before they write a line of code, accessibility gets built in from the start. Tests and reviews still matter, but they find problems after the fact. A good spec stops most of them from happening.
The rest takes judgment. You tab through the page, you listen to it with a screen reader, and you work out why a pattern fails before it ships. A clean scan tells you very little about whether someone can actually use the page.
Most of the web excludes disabled users, and models trained on it produce more of the same unless the spec asks for something else. So writing a good spec matters even more now.
axe, Lighthouse, WAVE sont utiles. Mais ils couvrent environ 30% des critères WCAG. Le reste exige du jugement, du contexte, et d'avoir utilisé un lecteur d'écran pour de vrai.
Read on LinkedIn: Les outils automatisés ne voient pas 70% des problèmes d'accessibilité (opens in a new tab)Pas comme suggestion. Pas comme «on regardera après le lancement». Bloquer. Voici comment structurer ça en équipe sans que ça devienne un frein à tout.
Read on LinkedIn: L'accessibilité doit bloquer la mise en production (opens in a new tab)Les modèles ont appris d'un web qui exclut la plupart des personnes handicapées. Sans spécification explicite, ils reproduisent ces patterns. Ce n'est pas un bug, c'est le dataset.
Read on LinkedIn: L'IA reproduit l'inaccessibilité du web par défaut (opens in a new tab)About 1.3 billion people live with a significant disability. What gets in their way online, why it matters for your site, and where to start fixing it.
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Mostly in French. Short posts about accessibility problems I come across in live products.
I've been building web interfaces for over a decade. Most of the last several years have been accessibility work.
Day to day, that means writing specs developers can act on and auditing products with the assistive technology people actually use. It also means saying no when something almost passes.
I'm based in Lausanne and work in French and English. I also post on LinkedIn three times a week, mostly in French.
Outside of accessibility, I like making images with code, mostly spirals and grids built from a few simple rules. Those experiments end up on the blog.
Available for accessibility consulting and development work in Switzerland