cordlord

joined 1 year ago
[–] cordlord@rblind.com 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The freedom to create third-party clients (apps) for social media platforms has a really vital effect on accessibility, because it facilitates friendly competition (and productive copying) among a wide range of client apps, as well as allowing disabled app developers to freely create apps that meet their own accessibility needs.

Reddit's rug-pull with free API usage was thus especially controversial among blind users, virtually all of whom were using one of various third-party apps. While Reddit eventually made some gestures towards accessibility improvements in the first-party client, this place was nonetheless created as a hedge against their caprices.

Feel free to sub! Like the rest of Lemmy, this community has a lot of growing to do if it's to replace its counterparts among the proprietary monoliths.

[–] cordlord@rblind.com 1 points 1 year ago

Apple has probably the best marketing in the world. Part of that marketing success means that Apple is better at bedazzling people and making a product appealing beyond just its practical use. There's anything wrong with Apple users, but Apple is definitely better at commodity fetishism than any other company I can think of.

 

Saw this online elsewhere and figured I'd share here for discussion

[–] cordlord@rblind.com 4 points 1 year ago

What a pain. Is Android's 'override force-dark' setting usable with that app at all?