The bulk majority of applications people use today are not "thoughtfully designed with native OS controls". Sprinkling some ARIA labels around is better than nothing, but the experience itself is extremely limited and is not on-par with what those people deserve.
I'm talking about Javascript/CSS-heavy websites in a web-browser, computer games, or software such as Blender/SketchUp/Google Earth to name a few. ARIA labels aren't good enough here - we would need to develop an entirely different interface to accomodate for each individual accessibility scenario. You can imagine a blind person and a deaf person using entirely different versions of Blender, each built with a different interface accomodating a specific disability.
The bulk majority of applications people use today are not "thoughtfully designed with native OS controls". Sprinkling some ARIA labels around is better than nothing, but the experience itself is extremely limited and is not on-par with what those people deserve.
I'm talking about Javascript/CSS-heavy websites in a web-browser, computer games, or software such as Blender/SketchUp/Google Earth to name a few. ARIA labels aren't good enough here - we would need to develop an entirely different interface to accomodate for each individual accessibility scenario. You can imagine a blind person and a deaf person using entirely different versions of Blender, each built with a different interface accomodating a specific disability.