--- title: Framing accessibility in broader terms | daily.dev description: Accessibility is far broader than ARIA tags and screen reader support. It encompasses performance on low-end hardware, localization and design language... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/framing-accessibility-in-broader-terms-cyweyhega twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Framing accessibility in broader terms | daily.dev og:description: Accessibility is far broader than ARIA tags and screen reader support. It encompasses performance on low-end hardware, localization and design language... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/framing-accessibility-in-broader-terms-cyweyhega og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CywEYHega.png og:image:alt: Framing accessibility in broader terms og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Framing accessibility in broader terms **[Drew DeVault](https://daily.dev/sources/drewdevault)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Accessibility is far broader than ARIA tags and screen reader support. It encompasses performance on low-end hardware, localization and design language differences across cultures, intuitive UI for users unfamiliar with common conventions, and avoiding resource-heavy software that penalizes users with older or cheaper devices. The author argues that developers typically bolt on accessibility as an afterthought rather than designing for it from the start, and that true accessibility requires empathy-driven design that considers the full diversity of users. Free software is called out for its own accessibility failures, attributed to laziness and building for authors rather than users, not profit motives. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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