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To clarify: Are you indicating that, as a user dependent on screen readers, that this site is difficult to use for you? Do other users who depend on screen rea

To clarify: Are you indicating that, as a user dependent on screen readers, that this site is difficult to use for you? Do other users who depend on screen readers have an experience they’re willing to share about visiting this site?

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CJefferson 5y ago
As someone with friends who use screen readers, I notice when sites are close, but not quite there. Many websites are just a lost cause, but this is very close to very accessible :) The main limitation is it would be nice if the sections were labelled, either with a <hx>, or <section>, to make it easier to jump around the page. The ascii art gets read, which is a bit annoying, aria-hidden="true" will make the ascii art not get read out as text. The best option is to try out with a screen reader -- on both windows + mac a decent screen reader is built in (it's worth best with the default browser, safari on mac, edge on windows). I'm not expert on screen reading on Linux.
adhesive_wombat 5y ago
This is something that frustrates me: it's actually really hard to design for screenreaders because it's hard to actually check the results in a free/volunteer context. So you often just have to just hope you're being "semantic" enough. And I did try to use Orca but I just could not get it to work, the TTS service was sulkily disinclined to accept any requests.
- CJefferson 5y ago
  Nowadays it's really easy to check on mac + windows, as the built in stuff is "good enough", particularly if you use the OSes default browser (Safari and edge respectively). I realise that doesn't help Linux/BSD users.
- easrng 5y ago
  Firefox's Accessibility tree inspector is nice.
  - gurjeet 5y ago
    Link for the curious: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility...
- nwsm 5y ago
  Try IBM's Equal Access Checker browser extension https://github.com/IBMa/equal-access https://github.com/IBMa/equal-access

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CJefferson 5y ago

As someone with friends who use screen readers, I notice when sites are close, but not quite there. Many websites are just a lost cause, but this is very close to very accessible :) The main limitation is it would be nice if the sections were labelled, either with a <hx>, or <section>, to make it easier to jump around the page. The ascii art gets read, which is a bit annoying, aria-hidden="true" will make the ascii art not get read out as text. The best option is to try out with a screen reader -- on both windows + mac a decent screen reader is built in (it's worth best with the default browser, safari on mac, edge on windows). I'm not expert on screen reading on Linux.

adhesive_wombat 5y ago

This is something that frustrates me: it's actually really hard to design for screenreaders because it's hard to actually check the results in a free/volunteer context. So you often just have to just hope you're being "semantic" enough. And I did try to use Orca but I just could not get it to work, the TTS service was sulkily disinclined to accept any requests.

CJefferson 5y ago
Nowadays it's really easy to check on mac + windows, as the built in stuff is "good enough", particularly if you use the OSes default browser (Safari and edge respectively). I realise that doesn't help Linux/BSD users.
easrng 5y ago
Firefox's Accessibility tree inspector is nice.
- gurjeet 5y ago
  Link for the curious: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility...
nwsm 5y ago
Try IBM's Equal Access Checker browser extension https://github.com/IBMa/equal-access https://github.com/IBMa/equal-access