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Very true :) I had this exact issue with the Elgato StreamDeck user interface, which renders the macro buttons as one big canvas only drag-and-drop interacts with. It's rare that I…

Doesn't work for security, not for accessibility, not usually for localization and internationalization, it doesn't work for bandwidth optimization... yet we all keep making UIs th…

I'm not a hard person to find. My hackernews handle into a search engine gets you myriad ways to contact me (Mastodon, LinkedIn, etc.) but I'm at florianbeijers [at] google's mail …

I always find it interesting to see that while we watch people struggle to get through a UI , unable to see the forest through the trees while they just want to get done with the t…

Honestly the fact that this article still needs to be written in 2026 is the designated real-big-sad imho. Screen readers almost entirely ignore the visual layer of any UI, and are…

No. There are certainly AI-generated accessibility solutions for single, existing applications, games and websites but no outright AI-powered screen reader. I'd think the token cos…

The solution, that accessibility advocates have been clamoring for for decades now, is to s"shift left". If you know you're going to add accessibility, which ... we have had WCAG s…

Honestly as a blind person and blind developer myself, most of these features get a shrug at best. For one, there's already a bunch of third-party apps that do most if not all of t…

I am ... relatively sure JAWS reads out title attributes of images because people kept erroneously sticking important info there decades ago, I wouldn't say that's a generally acce…

'Honestly this is a people problem more than a tech problem. We have the tech. We're just not using it. I'd say LLMs COULD make it easier to implement accessibility, it also couldn…

The tricky thing with these "unofficial" distros is that they are generally maintained by either a single individual or a small group of people. This is true for many accessibility…

Wait the title attribute? What are you basing that on? Screen readers tend to not pick those up at least on interactive elements by default, you need to do a bit of "wiggling" to g…

From the article I'd assume this wouldn't work in any way for mobile given no hover, not for screen reader users because a website often has no idea where a screen reader's cursor …

This is a really cool concept :) Generally in language learning it's a good idea to try to "think" in the language as much as you can so you get creative about how to phrase someth…

I'm sure it's fast, but is it accessible? Am I as a screen reader user going to get fired if the company I work at decides one day to have all of their devs use this? And if not, a…

I love this idea, it would actually solve a lot of accessibility issues within coding courses for the fully blind. Unfortunately right now the scrimba interface appears to need som…

You're not wrong but I think there is absolutely a case to be made for these kinds of restructurings as well. For one, giving you the restructured version exposes you to different …

Would love this for Finnish, not gonna lie :)

I'll check that out :) I'd be curious how well this would work without being able to see the video you're messing with (fully blind myself). Will give that a whirl.

Honestly this looks cool but setting it up is a bit much. Like... I think the idea of this is cool, but by the time I've done all this setup I've more than likely forgotten what it…

I love this ;) If you do add TUI graphics please consider adding a switch to not use them, ascii art is majorly annoying with a screen reader :)

Here's a question, will accessibility be considered? I fully realize my HN contributions are a bit of a broken record but also, if I don't bring this up, it appears nobody does so …

Feel free to come find me on Masto or similar and AMA. That goes for all of you. Not auditing for free, but happy to answer questions/figure out ARIA warnings or whatever. Linting …

That is the sad part, yeah. You'd think with the ADA existing since the early 90s things like coding bootcamps and CS college degrees would spend more time on this but they really,…

Oh absolutely. In an ideal world, we see a lot of disabled folk with a bunch of applicable knowledge be hired to do this for companies. The reality is that a lot of people who have…