Haily

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Serious issues regarding VoiceOver on macOS (kbin.social)
 

Hi,

As of right now, the site is pretty much entirely inaccessible for blind users on macOS. The reason for this is that the VoiceOver cursor has an unfortunate habit of jumping around all over the place, often miles away from where it aught to be. For example, if I try and look at my notifications, I often get jumped to the footer, or to the profile of the person whose comment I’m reading, or really anywhere else. This happens occasionally on iOS as well, though not nearly as frequently, for example I occasionally find myself clicking on the skip to content link when attempting to open a text field.

Apologies if I’m not explaining any of this clearly, it’s quite hard to describe to someone without much screen reader experience.

Thanks.

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This is a test. (kbin.social)
 

This is a test.

Kbin Cafe, a fun, general-purpose instance, is now open for registrations ☕ in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] Haily@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It would be great if there was some sort of dedicated list of instances similar to what Lemmy already has. Of course the process of creating an instance could do with simplification as well. IMO the focus on keeping this instance up and running, as opposed to working on Kbin itself, could be hugely detrimental to the entire project in the longterm.

Is kbin.social anti-corporation? Should it be? in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[–] Haily@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

I was originally in the let’s just sit back and see what happens camp, but this article completely changed my perspective. A very interesting read. I do, however, agree that companies creating their own instances to advertise their products can only be good for us in the longrun.

On a similar note, I was recently reading about Microsoft’s efforts to dominate the whole browser space in the 90s, and I think it’s a very good example of the worst kind of capitalism.

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Just a heads up, but if you favourite or boost anything, the accessibility labels don’t update to reflect this. (kbin.social)
 

Lemmy have fixed this problem in the latest developer build, might be in stable by now. They replaced the buttons with toggles which screen readers can recognise. Kbin’s accessibility is top notch aside from this one problem, so chears for that. :)

How do we get an instance removed? in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[–] Haily@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I think Lemmy may be doing something similar, actually. At least, I’ve noticed that smaller instances don’t seem to be federating nearly as well as larger instances. Obviously Mastodon have figured out a way around this as well, so it’s clearly doable.