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Are CLI tools inherently accessible?
by carlmr 7y ago
Are CLI tools inherently accessible?
- mlang23 7y agoI guess 99.9% are. However, it is pretty hard to order a pizza or buy your weekly load of groceries with a CLI tool :-) If you want to interact with the rest of the world, you will likely need to use the web...
- downtide 7y agoI often use w3m.
- jdnenej 7y agoHave you tried Emacs?
- comex 7y ago> However, it is pretty hard to order a pizza [..] with a CLI tool :-) You’d be surprised. ;) Here’s a classic from 2004: https://www.slashdot.org/story/45782 https://www.slashdot.org/story/45782 (That specific tool probably no longer works, but Domino’s still has an API for ordering pizza… although apparently the new one isn’t officially supported.)
- dan-robertson 7y agoI’d guess not necessarily. Writing a command for a cli tool is probably reasonably accessible to blind people. But if I think of a typical workflow with unix tools (less, grep, awk, sed, sort, cut, etc), I feel like it involves a lot of glancing at the shape of a big page of results and deciding what to do. I wonder if this is harder/impossible for blind people? Maybe one just gets better at a different workflow involving eg lots of head, tail, grep -o, and less less. I also would guess that tab-completion isn’t super accessible but maybe I’m completely wrong.