Meteor & Accessibility

[awatson1978]

The modern W3C standard you’re looking for is called WAI-ARIA. Support for ARIA is generally found in the Angular/Polymer/Webcomponents ecosystem, rather than the React ecosystem.

Relevant reading:

Why is accessibility support so bad?

Warning - this is going to be a little bit of a rant. And it’s not really specific to Meteor, except that I’ve encountered all of these issues as a result of learning Meteor. I recently left (unnamed big company) where I spent the last two years building a library of JavaScript widgets that was used internally in dozens of major apps. One of my goals was to build world-class WAI-ARIA support into the library from the ground up, on both mobile and desktop platforms. I worked closely with a lot o…