Post #1739391

2026-04-26 23:17 UTC

I&#39;ve recently jumped on the Tailscale bandwagon and am loving it. What&#39;s astounding to me is that in several days of using it as a screen reader user, I&#39;ve encountered only a single minor accessibility issue across web, Windows and iOS. It is an absolute dream to use from an #accessibility standpoint, even its &quot;visual&quot; access controls editor. In a world where most tech products (*especially* those from high value tech companies and startups) are riddled with painful accessibility papercuts at best, complete barriers at worst, this is actually incredible. And unlike some tech companies that publicly wax lyrical about how they have such a great accessibility model and how everyone should learn from their work, then ship utter crap that is utterly exhausting to use for people with disabilities, Tailscale has just done the work without any public grandstanding. I don&#39;t give such praise lightly, but it&#39;s nice to be able to call out great accessibility work for a change. Thanks @tailscale. Please keep up the good work and don&#39;t let it slip as you grow.

Replies (6)

@bscross32@tweesecake.social 2026-04-27 00:16

@jcsteh @tailscale It's pretty sick. i can use tail drop to transfer files between any of my connected devices. I can access LLMs running locally on my machine which is capable of doing so from my machine which isn't. I can configure a funnel so that anyone can use the LLM that I give the link to.

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@kd6cae@dragonscave.space 2026-04-27 00:43

@jcsteh I've been playing with tailscale myself over the last couple months, and it's amazing. I can access a friend's local resources should I want to, and it's seemless. On our tailnet, we have several exit nodes set up on some of our various servers, so we can browse the internet from any of those locations, or none of them, as we wish, and it's very easy to switch. The only thing I haven't yet tried is sending files between say a PC and a phone on the tailnet, something I've heard can be done, but will eventually get around to trying that. It's so cool. Nice to see software that hasn't completely forgotten about accessibility.

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@menelion@dragonscave.space 2026-04-27 11:33

@jcsteh @tailscale Sorry, can you please explain as I'm five what is Tailscale? I read it's kind of a VPN but not a VPN, so what is it? Thanks!

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@robin@kipp.social 2026-04-27 12:01

@jcsteh @menelion @tailscale Tailscale is absolutely amazing, and yes they do care about accessibility. Opened a GitHub issue once for some VO accessibility bugs, and they got fixed within only a couple weeks. So yes, can very strongly recommend as well!

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@x0@dragonscave.space 2026-04-27 21:00

@jcsteh @tailscale It's one of those pieces of software that I genuinely don't know how I got along without it. That and rclone are the big ones.

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@TRodick93@tweesecake.social 2026-04-27 21:52

@jcsteh @tailscale Okay, I hear about Tailscale in various places, but can someone give me a TLDR of what its purpose is? Best I can figure out, it's some sort of reverse proxy that handles HTTPS transparently, but that's about all I can figure out.

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