Post #3192939
2026-06-08 11:03 UTC
Replies (6)
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@jonathan859@someplace.social 2026-06-08 11:38
@fireborn@dragonscave.space This!
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@sparkles@ck.catwithaclari.net 2026-06-08 11:48
@fireborn@dragonscave.space i have been questioning whether screen readers are the right direction and whether a different UI for visually impaired users that is more similar to a console environment can be created, what do you think?
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@MostlyBlindGamer@dragonscave.space 2026-06-08 12:05
@fireborn@dragonscave.space I think the vibe coding trend in the blindness tech community is at odds between necessary empowerment and ignorance and disdain for expertise. I notice a lot of experts, in open source and in commercial tech companies, have treated blind users with disdain, laying the groundwork for a backlash as soon as this technology became convincing enough. Not good enough, convincing enough. Basically we’re now faced with a group of people who deeply emotionally distrust the ones who know what they’re doing, and can’t necessarily tell apart the experts who care from the ones who don’t. They also lack the ability to distinguish between what’s simple or complicated, since the whole process is a black box. Chances are nobody who was in a position to teach them five years ago bothered to. Ultimately, I think the solution is the same that was always proposed by the open source movement: community. The question is how to establish the necessary emotional bonds. #blind #FOSS
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@deborahh@cosocial.ca 2026-06-08 13:22
@fireborn@dragonscave.space @pawpower@beige.party this is awful 😡. "Build it right or do not build it. The people who need it cannot afford your learning curve."
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@Tamasg@mindly.social 2026-06-08 14:23
@robini71@dragonscave.space @fireborn@dragonscave.space I'm just laughing at the fact that they called it "talk forward" and consider it even a serious project with that kind of naming. It's like, you know the thing was made out of spite with AI.
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@sparkles@ck.catwithaclari.net 2026-06-10 09:39
@fireborn@dragonscave.space If you have spent years watching TalkBack stagnate, watching Google treat accessibility as a checkbox, watching features break between releases and stay broken for months while the bug tracker collects dust — the idea that you could sit down with an LLM and have something that seems to work in under an hour feels like a revelation. You do not have to wait for Google. You do not have to file another bug that goes nowhere. You can just build the thing.This. This is the core problem. Accessibility is so neglected it gets abbreviated to a11y, a numeronym that is inaccessible on its own. Accessible-first design paradigms should become more widespread. And while saying this I have to acknowledge that I am awful at thinking accessibility-first but I am trying to do better.