This is a guest post by Peter Armstrong. Peter is the Co-Founder of Leanpub and the author of 4 books, all of which were published in-progress. One of them was titled Programming for Kids. This post is about why Peter wrote that book.

Building an accessible product sounds so obvious, yet it is very often overlooked or perceived as a separate entity of the product. Only after having worked on several accessibility-related projects did version 3.4 of pickadate.js come out with ARIA support. I didn’t implement it sooner due to a lack of time, but also partly due to me expecting it to be a daunting task. This was not the case.

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