Mind The (Remediation) Gap
November 18, 2024
JavaScript frameworks continue to rise in popularity. For example, according to the 2024 WebAIM Million report, more than seventy thousand of the top million home pages use React. Other common frameworks like Vue are used on over forty thousand home pages. In total, JavaScript frameworks were detected on 30 percent of the top million home pages.
For the past few years, the vast majority of websites that I’ve personally audited have used one of these frameworks. And while I can’t definitively say whether these frameworks are the root cause of the barriers that I’ve found, I can say that they’ve created their own challenges.
The folks from TPGI take a look at the specific sorts of issue frameworks like React might pose the it comes to accessibility, and what you can do about them.
