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Accessibility is an operating system and browser responsibility. It is effective at integration at this level. It is not effective to ask every webmaster to be responsible for the problem individually. This is nonsense. Modern operating systems and web browsers do a good job at owning this without bulky scripts on the front end ruining experiences for the remaining 99%.

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Right and it’s the responsibility of a webmaster to use those tools OSs and browsers provide to make accessible apps.

Semantic HTML with good useful labels goes a huge way. It’s not that complicated… unless you’re using a bunch of bulky front end scripts that clobber the native accessibility features.

Also, screen readers in particular have not historically been the purview of OSs at that level, hence the several different proprietary programs that help people interface with their computer. Apple products from what I’ve heard are an exception though

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