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How can a blind person ever be a report designer? The nature of the task is inherently visual. No matter how much accessibility you add to PowerPoint a blind us
by monkeynotes 7y ago
How can a blind person ever be a report designer? The nature of the task is inherently visual. No matter how much accessibility you add to PowerPoint a blind user isn't going to be able to chose the perfect font or position a chart in a meaningful way.
- humblebee 7y agoPowerPoint is a pretty poor example. A blind person may not be able to build a PowerPoint template, but I think they should be able to build a PowerPoint presentation using a supplied template.
- mwcampbell 7y agoExactly. Furthermore, my primary concern is not the app, but the toolkit, since that's what the Show HN i really about IMO.
- RickTM 7y agoSome Powerpoints make me wish I was blind.
- miki123211 7y agoI don't have a problem with companies explicitly choosing not to make the apps accessible, unless I'm forced to use them, or they were accessible and it's hard to switch now. I have a problem with UI toolkit developers dismissing accessibility entirely and then companies using those "cool things" to build apps. If you build an inaccessible web app and you want to add a11y later on, you reasonably can. It might be hard, but it's usually doable. If you use a toolkit like this though, you're completely, hopelessly screwed. You can't do anything without rewriting half of the toolkit to support an alternative DOM representation, which will probably affect your performance. I've never seen that done. Either the companies just give up or moan about the shitload of money they've wasted and rebuild the app using normal web components, or build an alternative. Sometimes the law just forces them to, and the toolkit forces them not to. Imagine the sums of money you can waste on this.