alt Hacker NewsWhat does Tailwind have to do with accessibility? Most significant HTML markup is block level elements. The CSS is completely orthogonal.
I feel like old-school frontend devs bring up accessibility as a kind of bogeyman.
It reminds me of the myth that CSS style X or Y breaks accessibility "because screen readers expect semantic CSS classes". Zeldman (of A List Apart) promulgated that disinformation for years, until someone actually told him screen readers don't work that way. 90% of people who use a11y as a rhetorical cudgel have never actually used AT themselves.
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It’s not Tailwind the tech, it’s the ergonomics of the tool. Tailwind’s design loop encourages “let me add a div so I have a place for my CSS class”.
I’ve usability tested and performed user research with many users needing assistive tools and I’ve used them myself as part of design.
Basic HTML authoring is good practice for many reasons.
I'm not familiar with that old tale about Zeldman. It's true that assistive technologies don't know about CSS class names but CSS absolutely can affect a non-sighted screen reader user's experience.
I don't use Tailwind so I don't know if it makes it easier or harder to do the right thing when needing to hide something from everyone or only visually hiding something. Because it's CSS, it can't take care of only hiding something from assistive technologies.