Do they ever do anything about it after you’ve told them?

Alt text being like "Product Image" 😂 Passed the automated test. Tick the box. Move on.

This is a real product, on a real shop. I won't say where - but I did tell them... quite a while ago now.

I think we call this: early finish Friday.

Great write-up. I found this exact problem on a site using a custom dropdown recently. The button to open the dropdown was valid, so it passed the automated checks, but then the options weren't keyboard accessible. davedavies.dev/reviews/acce...

Shame it didn’t take off. Sounds like it could have been an interesting project…

If you build your own UI, it has to match the interaction model people already depend on.

davedavies.dev/reviews/acce...

I found out recently that Jamaica is the only national flag anywhere in the world which doesn't contain red, white, or blue.

Not particularly interesting, until you're in a pub quiz about flags.

What's this "time for yourself" thing?

I took a month off work when we had newborns, and it's just relentless isn't it! We had grandparent help, and the backlog still kept growing.

It does get easier. But where you're at, the nights a looooonnnggg.

But I keep finding Shopify stores with major accessibility issues, so it’s not out of the realm of possibilities.

Half it? That is about $375 million.
Half it again? That is about $187 million.

In ONE day.

Even the most conservative version of this number is still huge.

So if we apply the same loss rate, Shopify merchants likely left in the region of three quarters of a billion dollars on the table because customers with access needs couldn’t complete their purchase.

Is this concrete data? No.

The frustrating thing is these custom controls could just be regular HTML inputs, styled for the UI, and everything would work perfectly. Focusable, operable, announced correctly.

Here's example of this in the wild: davedavies.dev/reviews/acce...

Oh wow - add this to things I didn't know I wanted, but is now on my Christmas shortlist. These look awesome Matt 🙌

My favourite coffee supplier uses divs for all the "buttons" on their product page - with no event handlers for keyboards 🤯 They're not a small company either.

Thanks for sharing 🙂

You can watch a video too, if it's more your thing. On every site I reviewed recently, none of them moved the focus to the cart draw. This breaks WCAG 2.4.3, 2.4.12 and probably 2.1.1, but more importantly it adds frustration for your customers. Build your products to make it easy to buy.

A cafe by us has an entire room dedicated to baby change, separate from the toilets. Great facilities, clean, loads of space, sinks. Guess where we decide to go grab coffee and cake every time we're near it 🤔

I found one of these "in the wild" the other day. The frustrating part is how easy they are to fix, once it's been found. davedavies.dev/reviews/keyb...