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Web Directions Code '21 session spotlight–Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score - Web Directions

Web Directions Code ’21 session spotlight–Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score

John Allsopp

20th September, 2021

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Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score

Manuel Matuzović, Senior Frontend Developer

Google’s built-in testing tool Lighthouse judges the accessibility of our websites with a score between 0 and 100. It’s laudable to try to get a high grading, but a score of 100 doesn’t mean that the site is perfectly accessible. To prove that Manuel Matuzović carried out a little experiment.

About Manuel Matuzović

Manuel is a front-end developer from Vienna, specialized in HTML, CSS, accessibility, and performance. He likes to write about these topics on his blog matuzo.at and talk at meetups and conferences. He’s organizer of the webclerks conference in Vienna, and he maintains htmhell.dev and frontendbookmarks.com.

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