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asadotzlertoday at 6:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Does great for front ends mean considerate A11Y? In the projects I've looked over, that's almost never the case and the A11Y implementation is hardly worthy of being called prototype, much less production. Mock up seems to be the best label. I'll bet you think because the surface looks right that runs down to the roots so you call it good at front ends. This is the problem with LLMs, they do not do the hard work and they teach people that the hard work they cannot do is fine left undone or partially done and the more people "program" like this the worse the situation gets for real human beings trying to live in a world dominated by software.


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simonwtoday at 7:58 PM

It turns out if you tell a coding agent "make it accessible" you'll get better results than you would from most professional front-end developers.

I'm not satisfied yet: I want coding agents to be able to actively test on screen readers as part of their iteration loop.

I've not found a system that can do that well yet out of the box, but GuidePup is very promising: https://github.com/guidepup/guidepup