Ask Lemmy

I'm not blind but I work in web accessibility. A lot of people with low/no sight rely on screen readers to navigate phones and computers. It's up to devs to develop sites and apps that work nicely with accessibility software, so it depends a lot on the specific interface being used. Generally most things from big tech go through heavy accessibility testing, whereas government websites are seemingly designed to be equally inaccessible to everyone.

Accessibility testing usually involves things like checking that everything is labeled, checking that everything can be accessed via keyboard, checking that visual events are transmitted to the screen reader, checking that things work well with high contrast mode, and so on

Edit: I also want to add that this is one of the reasons people left Reddit. After they banned third party apps, it became unusable to people who relied on accessibility tools. They don't give a rats ass about making the official app accessible.

I don't see any comments from actual blind people so I guess they didn't see this post yet.

Not blind, but I have two followers on Mastodon who are, and I asked about their experience.

They said the "Mastodon etiquete" of describing images makes it better to use than any of the "mainstream" social media they use.

Since I found they are following me I doubled down on describing images. It is specially pleasant trying to describe a meme the funniest way possible.

I can't imagine what a black hole in life it would be for a blind person to go down and end up spending all their leisure time in the fediverse.

I have full faculty of all my five senses and it's already a black hole down here in the ~~reddit~~ fediverse