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> Gemini is _incredible_ for accessibility It depends on how you use it. If you want to make ASCII tables, then a screen reader will not have an idea of how to
by sudobash1 3y ago
> Gemini is _incredible_ for accessibility
It depends on how you use it. If you want to make ASCII tables, then a screen reader will not have an idea of how to navigate the table. However a simple HTML <table> is well understood by screen-readers. I would contend that properly structured HTML documents are far better for accessibility.
- SoftTalker 3y agoTables are not part of Gemini markup. What it offers is accessible. What it does not offer is really beside the point.
- smlavine 3y agoI disagree. What it doesn't offer, people will try to do anyway, each in their own ad-hoc way. See how people used to abuse <div> before HTML5 (and still do)
- troupo 3y agoWhat it doesn't offer makes a significant chunk of content that people actually write and read inaccessible. For example, the lack of simple text styling makes Gemini significantly less accessible than it could've been. Because now a screenreader will say something like "Significantly asterisk less asterisk accessible" instead of "Significantly emphasis less accessible". I don't think images can have alt-text in Gemini so that blind users could get info from there. Etc. Edit: someone else has a much better answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052729 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052729