On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
According to Karen
Yes, the new Twitter owner fired the entire accessibility team, but how
are these services defining accessibility?
First of all, by having API's that allow the applications you choose to
interact with them.
by its actual meaning regardless of technology used, works from the
keyboard for example?
If that is your definition, there is an application that will fill that need
for you, or you can develop one.
You keep speaking of Orca, but what if one cannot, or chooses not to use
Orca at all?
Who cannot use Orca? If you choose not to use it, then this is your choice, but
you miss most of the accessibility of the modern web just for starters.
Applications that work with Orca work quite well from the keyboard and don't
need any other input to interact with them. Entirely text-based browsers on the
other hand generally do not take advantage of, nor do they support, modern web
technologies such as HTML5 and accessible JavaScript. They also lack
navigational features available from within modern browsers using Orca,
including but not limited to header/button/link/form field navigation and lists
of same. Keyboard navigation and activation of clickable elements is also
lacking in text-based browsers, making an even larger percentage of websites
inaccessible to them, but not inaccessible to Orca.
If the goal are options that lets individuals, regardless of label,
communicate with those they wish, and engage with the world as they
desire, then the access is based on progressive enhancement design, or
should be, not any specific screen reader if that resonates, speaking
personally.
I'm not catching your meaning here. All the tools I mentioned in my previous
message allow API access, meaning that anything in the world that can be done
from their websites can be done programmatically from an application or script
you can either download from somewhere or develop on your own, up to and even
including registering new accounts, posting, reading any timeline, sending
direct/private messages, etc. Also, if you find something missing or lacking in
any of these, they are all open source/free software, meaning that you are free
to modify them and redistribute your modifications, so you can add API
functions as well. This is as accessible as anything can possibly be, and is
exactly what makes them the best alternative to Twitter, Facebook, pretty much
any other walled garden so-called social network on the planet that is run by a
too-big-to-fail corporate entity.
~ Kyle
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