@sparkles@ck.catwithaclari.net
Post #3290823
2026-06-08 11:48 UTC
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@fireborn@dragonscave.space 2026-06-08 12:10
@sparkles@ck.catwithaclari.net Products like this exist, and are all subeerly limitted. You would not tell a wheelchair user they should use a different building because the one you built isn't accessible. The didgital world should work for everyone, and the capability exists to make it so without dumbing it down
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@TheEntity@social.treehouse.systems 2026-06-08 21:45
@sparkles@ck.catwithaclari.net @fireborn@dragonscave.space "whether screen readers are the right direction" -> Screen readers are an assistive technology people use. If they need it or find it most comfortable, then they should have it. We do not get to say if their choice of AT is a right direction or not. UIs should be accessible to users with assistive technologies. Creating an alternative UI adds a new UI workflow that may or may not get updated in parallel with the other, tells users needing AT that they should be funneled to "the other space" instead of using the same pages and spaces everyone else does, and offers no guarantees of actually being more accessible anyway. Thinking on it, I am not sure how something "more similar to a console environment" would help visually impaired users if screen readers are also not the right direction. How would they perceive the console environment?