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I would recommend that everyone go check out Sian Bahram’s 2016 talk on computing while blind. At around 6:30 he specifically addresses how inaccessible HN is t
by jonah-archive 4y ago
I would recommend that everyone go check out Sian Bahram’s 2016 talk on computing while blind. At around 6:30 he specifically addresses how inaccessible HN is to a visually impaired user: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1r55efei5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1r55efei5c
- Fargoan 4y agoWow. I don't know anything about screen readers or how blind people use the web, but I'm surprised that a strictly text website like HN would be inaccessible to blind people.
- easrng 4y agoIt uses table layouts and has no skip links.
- lozenge 4y agoRoot, parent, prev and next are all skip links aren't they? Or do you mean on the front page?
- edflsafoiewq 4y agoCuriously those are all aria-hidden.
- extra88 4y agoSina is great, it's a shame the device output is so much louder than his microphone in the video. I didn't hear him mention the lack of skip links on HN's home page (skip links are more for sighted keyboard users than blind screen reader users like him), I did hear him mention that the stories on the home page are not headings. Yes, a screen reader can navigate link to link but there are ~7 non-story links between each story link so being able to navigate from story to story as headings would be really helpful and semantically accurate.
- ufo 4y agoOof. Is there anything that could be done to make HN more accessible? Who do we call for this?