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devinpraterlast Saturday at 3:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

I hate that so much. When blind people are trying to start JAWS (the screen reader) by typing "jaws" into the start menu and pressing Enter, it will sometimes pull up a Bing page on Jaws the movie instead. And the blind person is just sitting there waiting for the screen reader to start. I tell people to use the run dialog for that reason. Sucks but that's what you have to do in the age of inshittisoft.


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ptxlast Saturday at 10:54 PM

They are apparently replacing the run dialog with a new "Modern Run" dialog, so we can look forward to that also not working properly:

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/after-30...

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eptcykalast Saturday at 1:27 PM

This is purely insane. Doesn’t Microsoft violate accessibility laws in some jurisdiction due to this?

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