Laws affecting websites, such as accessibility laws and GDPR-like privacy laws need to be made very carefully, and I feel like they haven't been. They cover every website, from the largest Fortune 500 website to the smallest Little Johnny's HTML Homework Assignment page. I worry that future selective enforcement of these laws could stifle smaller websites that someone disagrees with. "That's a nice website you have criticizing <government> or <corporation>, would be a shame if we brought up all the laws you aren't 100% in compliance with..."
Similar is the time that universities tried to put educational videos online for free and got sued because they didn't provide subtitles. Now no one can watch them.
Another win with accessibility can be more common interfaces with web pages. This can make things like web scraping and alternative rendering (firefox's reader view, cli) much easier to do.
Granted, I think things like html5 was intended to accomplish this with tags like <article>, but usage is really inconsistent as far as I can tell.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 21.7 ms ] threadI'm optimistic about federal legislation that has some teeth.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/12/advocates-for-d...
Granted, I think things like html5 was intended to accomplish this with tags like <article>, but usage is really inconsistent as far as I can tell.