Me: web developer since 1996. I had to look it up. Came here to make the same comment, and see you being lambasted for it.
Don't let these haterz get you down. It's standard practice across ALL domains to define acronyms, and those who give this article a pass because ReASonS!! aren't people I'd willingly choose to work with: anglo-saxons who believe the whole world shares their lived experience, and their mental model.
Hacker news is just horrible for that attitude. Accessibility is a thing.