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What's your story regarding accessibility? Done? Planned? "we pretend disabled people don't exist until the government tells us otherwise"?
by miki123211 2y ago
What's your story regarding accessibility? Done? Planned? "we pretend disabled people don't exist until the government tells us otherwise"?
- haunter 2y agoWhy are you so hostile?
- mwcampbell 2y agoI think the hostility is understandable when you consider that blind and other disabled people, like myself (I'm partially blind) and the poster of that comment, live every day having to work around widespread indifference toward our needs. I'm not immune to it myself; see some of my older HN comments on GUI toolkit accessibility, before I started AccessKit.
- nextaccountic 2y agoMost newer GUI libraries entirely neglect accessibility and focus exclusively on rendering. Maybe accessibility is seen as too much effort for too little gain? It's kind like most CLI programs nowadays don't come with a man page (nor an info page) and think that an autogenerated `--help` is enough. Except that nobody is excluded from using your application just because it doesn't come with proper documentation
- mkl 2y agoFrom the readme: "Blitz builds upon: [...] AccessKit for accessibility"
- nicoburns 2y agoWe have the basics (exposing an accessibility tree that is visible to screen readers, a keyboard controllable focus system). There's a lot more work to do be done to make it work well (but that's also true of Blitz in general). We're building upon https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit which provides a cross-platform abstraction over the OS accessibility APIs.
- mwcampbell 2y agoHi, lead AccessKit developer here. Thanks for prioritizing accessibility even at this fairly early stage of the project.
- nicoburns 2y agoThanks for building AccessKit and making this so much easier for us!