• Lachy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m curious how accessible Lemmy is to users who need to use assistive technology, and whether the many 3rd party app developers are making their apps accessible.

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      The nice thing about open source is that motivated developers can fill out whats needed.

      In for-profit companies there’s always some money-making feature that kicks accessibility down the road. The way I get my work colleagues to give a fuck is to remind them that most blind people aren’t born that way, some circumstance causes the blindness - and therefore any one of them could end up on the other side of the fence begging for basic access one day, so act accordingly now.

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        It’s kind of terrible that you have to argue like that. I mean shouldn’t the very fact that you can be born blind be a great argument for accessibility?

        After all, any of them could have drawn that number in the birth lottery.

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      Actually, open-source software can be great for accessibility and I’ve been testing Lemmy with a screen reader.

      Overall Lemmy is pretty close right now once a few roadblocks are removed. The audio captcha was broken, I helped fix that in the code just a couple of days ago but it hasn’t been released yet (at least not in lemmy.world).

      After that I mostly see more subtle issues, not complete deal breakers. I haven’t started looking at moderator features, though.

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      I’m not sure about the current offerings, but I think former Reddit apps transitioning to Lemmy (such as Sync) should retain any accessibility compatibility/features they had.