I work for quite large investment bank (not Workday) and we have 1mil + customers. It is not a startup and it exists for many years. I have come in as frontend dev and just by a chance I noticed, that our website is not accessible at all - you cannot tab to go to elements on the website, contrast of some items is bad, no keyboard focus indicator, screen readers fails misserably to read and navigate the content, etc. I have risen this to management and their answer is basically - we dont care, none of us has any disability so why should we care, there are no money in doing so. I find it just ridiculous, that in 2024 a big company ignores such an important aspect of websites. You dont have to be disabled to use keyboard navigation or have elements with better contrast. I feel ashamed to work on such platform, that does not cater to everyone. Do you find it important? Should it be standard in this day and age?
If it’s affecting business, it’s an issue. Otherwise, it’s not. Don’t expect morality to win if it doesn’t align with capitalism and law.
Yes 100%. It’s an edge case, and it’s just poor and lazy engineering to not address edge cases.
Btw we are engineers, our job is to design and build a perfect system. We are at odds with managers, bean counters, etc who need to see $$ to do anything.
OP, I think youre raising reasonable concerns. Accessibility is for everyone’s benefit, and the feedback from your management is just inane. Is there any way for you to quantify the problem? Maybe user feedback about how crappy the experience is?
The explanation for that is in the first sentence of your post, op. You ended up in the worst possible kind of business when it comes to actually caring about people.
Jesus imagine being so out of touch with possible customers that you don't care about a feature because it doesn't impact you personally
Give me the company name in DM, I have a visually impaired friend, will ask him to sue. He can take 50%, we both can split the rest!!
Is this TIAA ? Because I don’t have any issue in vanguard, Schwab and fidelity
A lot of these problems are hard to solve once the system is up and running. Instead of just complaining to management, pro actively suggest a realisric plan to do something about it, ie, 'the next time we are page x, fix the tab order'.
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There are.