Effectiveness

Are accessibility overlays effective?

Accessibility overlays often claim to be the silver bullet for website accessibility, but their effectiveness is a subject of heated debate within the digital accessibility community. 

While they might plaster alt text onto your images and slap some ARIA roles onto your buttons, they often fall short when it comes to addressing the underlying structural issues that truly make a website accessible. 

Sure, they might make your website look more accessible on the surface, but are they really improving the user experience for people with disabilities? Many experts argue that accessibility overlays provide little more than a superficial veneer of accessibility, leaving users to navigate the same old barriers lurking beneath the surface.