Controversial Take: Wcag 3.0's Outcomes-Based Scoring Kills Checkbox Aut
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Controversial take: WCAG 3.0's outcomes-based scoring finally kills checkbox automation—will teams accept costly human testing, or will vendors fake co
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We're having a chat about this stuff at work, where we are just chasing down all of these checklist issues which are trivial but really have no idea if real screen reader users with their abilities and disabilities could actually use the thing and if some of the things we do to clear the checklist might actually make their experience worse.