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Accessibility audits remain unaffordable for indie developers

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An accessibility advocate is relaunching a service to audit web applications after noticing a widening gap in the industry. The advocate highlights that current accessibility auditing services are too expensive for independent developers, and the rise of AI-generated applications is exacerbating the problem by creating products that are inaccessible to blind users. The relaunched service aims to provide affordable audits for indie developers. AI

IMPACT The rise of AI-generated applications is creating new accessibility barriers for users with disabilities.

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Accessibility audits remain unaffordable for indie developers

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    I've spent eight years in accessibility, watching the same gap go unfixed. The industry serves big companies, audits run thousands, and indie devs get priced ou

    I've spent eight years in accessibility, watching the same gap go unfixed. The industry serves big companies, audits run thousands, and indie devs get priced out. So in 2021 I launched Taylor's Teardowns to help. Now AI makes it worse, everyone's shipping apps that lock blind peo…

    LINKS taylorarndt.substack.com/…/taylors-teardo… taylorarndt.gumroad.com/…/teardown

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