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A shame that screen scrapers includes anyone with visual impairments, and that our current "text-based" web is already struggling to accomodate them.
by ivanbakel 9y ago
A shame that screen scrapers includes anyone with visual impairments, and that our current "text-based" web is already struggling to accomodate them.
- fiatjaf 9y agoYou should tell that to Michelangelo. He shouldn't have painted anything that wouldn't be possibly perceived by anyone with visual impairments.
- ivanbakel 9y agoThere's a difference between saying no non-accessible media should exist and making changes to media which add very little and simply serve to make it less accessible than it already is.
- always_good 9y ago> making changes to media which add very little and simply serve to make it less accessible than it already is. If that's what you think this fun little project is, you have lost your grip.
- ivanbakel 9y agoWhere do I say that I think this applies to the project in the OP? I'm talking about the idea of "driving screen-scrapers nuts". To implement the project just for that purpose is anti-access, which doesn't reflect on the project itself.
- martyvis 9y agoActually many people think that the mainstream use of text and keyboards is inaccessible. My 84 year-old mother-in-law was quite bamboozled trying to do a bank transfer and the multiple tab forms, passcodes, 2FA SMS, etc
- teleclimber 9y agoYes this is true. Such a system would not be accessible. Not cool.