Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
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Re: Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
#2I feel like I've visited countless websites which employ some of these, for no good reason.
Re: Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
#3My personal takeaway from this is that automated accessibility tests are no substitute for professional audits
Re: Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
#4A bit silly. Most of the examples are intentionally hiding content with explicit commands no one would ever use, and then saying it is inaccessible.
That said, Lighthouse should do things like "use perceptual parsing trchniques to compare the visible content to the standard screen reader parsed content".
Re: Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
#5My personal takeaway from this is that automated accessibility tests are no substitute for professional audits
An audit, and using the site as a person who requires accessibility would while developing. The automated tools are just a quick check to find anything blatantly wrong. I also suggest using WAVE and AXE for that purpose.
As you get deeper into accessibility you'll also find there isn't one single right answer to improve accessibility.
Re: Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
#6My personal takeaway from this is that automated accessibility tests are no substitute for professional audits
My takeaway was that accessibility tools expect the websites they are checking not to be actively hostile to accessibility.
Re: Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
#7My personal takeaway from this is that automated accessibility tests are no substitute for professional audits
Accessibility is just usability.
You cannot automate usability tests. You have to put it in front of a real human and see if they can use it.
Re: Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
#8A bit silly. Most of the examples are intentionally hiding content with explicit commands no one would ever use, and then saying it is inaccessible. That said, Lighthouse should do things like "use perceptual parsing trchniques to compare the visible content to the standard screen reader parsed content".
The point is that you can employ some of those techniques and still get a perfect score. You might set outline: none or have an aria-hidden on your main content because you just copied some bad example. You would never notice and still score perfectly.
Re: Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
#9My personal takeaway from this is that automated accessibility tests are no substitute for professional audits
I get the feeling that a professional audit has a reasonable chance of being the output from lighthouse copied into a spreadsheet.
If I'm going to get shallow automated advice, I want it cheap and fast, from the source.
Re: Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
#10I hope lighthouse team does not act on this. No need to complicate an already complex product for synthetic edge cases.