Website accessibility can seem a bit overwhelming, especially when you first start learning about it. You might be tempted to use a 3rd party accessibility \u201csolution\u201d because it offers to fix all your website problems just by dropping a line of code into your website, making it fully compliant with the regulations.<\/p>\n
Amazing really.<\/p>\n
It almost sounds too good to be good to be true.<\/p>\n
Of course it is too good to be true.<\/p>\n
They do not, I repeat, not, make a website compliant with anything and they actually make websites less accessible for many disabled people.<\/p>\n
In fact, one provider, AccessiBe, has recently been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for misleading advertising by the US Government.<\/p>\n
Another provider, Userway, is facing a class action lawsuit from its clients who bought their product, believing it would protect them from being sued.<\/p>\n
In reality, they were sued because their products did not such thing.<\/p>\n
Accessibility toolbars are a good thing but only if they are part of the website\u2019s native code, rather than some horrendous 3rd party overlay that will not make your website compliant in any way.<\/p>\n