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# An Accessibility Takedown
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/an-accessibility-takedown/
- Published: 2019-12-04T16:57:48.000Z
- Updated: 2019-12-04T16:57:48.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Good design was always accessible - Sharlene King](https://medium.com/@typodactyl/good-design-was-always-accessible-74b3a1782b09?ref=birchtree.me)

> As designers, we should embrace constraints and requirements. It’s strange that designers view the WCAG’s AA guidelines as an obstacle. Some designers ask if accessible design is necessary as if their work exists in a vacuum. You’re unhireable if your work is meant for an audience that never grows. Businesses want to grow. 

This is great.

> [This article by Anthony Tseng](https://uxmovement.com/thinking/the-aesthetic-accessibility-paradox/?ref=birchtree.me) is chock full of unresearched presumptions. Lazy at best, it is precisely the problem with designers today who are more obsessed with winning approval on Dribbble than function. It seems like a college freshman move — complete ignorance of design history and low standards for a designer’s creativity. 

No really, it's awesome.