Marcy Sutton Todd • 5/5/2016

Accessibility and Performance

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This article, based on a conference talk, examines how poor web performance negatively affects users of assistive technologies. It discusses the technical relationship between the accessibility tree and performance bottlenecks, highlighting issues like sluggish keyboard interactivity and screen reader loading delays. The author argues for integrating accessibility considerations into the web performance conversation and advocates for using semantic HTML over excessive JavaScript and ARIA.

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