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Get blind employees/coworkers. You'll find that you'll be making damn sure your page is accessible. I enjoy it a lot because you don't generally think about it, but accessibility does affect many people.

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This is a very valid point. All the pages produced by the places I've worked at were 100% accessible, mainly because the developers could see that I am unable to use the website, and I told them how easy it is to make content accessible. It is really simple once you do know that it is possible, and having a blind colleague who serves as a human tester is, as you said, really cool in this regard.

And not only as a reminder, like I said before, but most of the time I don't even know how to use the accessibility tools! So it's very nice to have someone who knows what they're doing tell you "I can't read this".

This is also how I discovered what a clusterfuck the Android accessibility tools are. Talkback before Marshmallow is atrocious (as in very obviously buggy), I'm going to test the new Talkback now and see.

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