alt Hacker NewsI use Tailwind and have all kinds of "screen reader" directives in my templates.
Not sure if it helps, but if we get our first blind user I will gladly make some admends to make it more usable for them.
It seems that Tailwind is now blamed for the mess that is HTML/CSS. Tailwind certainly allows for accessible designs; it may not be the ideal solution, sure, but what we aim for is "good enough".
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> but if we get our first blind user I will gladly make some admends to make it more usable for them.
Isn't this slightly backwards? Why would blind users sign up if the platform isn't usable for them in the first place? It has to be usable for them for them to become users :)
> Not sure if it helps, but if we get our first blind user I will gladly make some admends to make it more usable for them.
How will you know if they are unable to use your site? They'll just leave.
It's not just blind people, but also people with reduced eyesight. As I'm getting older, I really appreciate good contrast and the possibility to zoom in without breaking the layout.
if we get our first blind user I will gladly make some admends to make it more usable for them.
Not good enough. You have to be accessible before it is needed in order to avoid legal liability.
And how do you expect to get a blind user if they already cannot use your product?
None of the doctors I build web sites for are currently blind. I know this because I talk to them regularly. But I still build the web sites for the future, when HR might hire a doctor or nurse or other person who is blind, or partially sighted, or has trouble with their muscles, or has difficulty distinguishing colors.
Doing the right thing isn't that hard. Not doing it is just lazy.
I mentioned blind but there’s lots of others. Folks sitting a desk whose eyesight are getting worse and are scared to say so for fear of losing their job, for example. This happens.
Side note: if you aren’t deliberately choosing semantic elements and instead dropping aria attributes onto a bunch of divs this is an anti-pattern.
> Not sure if it helps, but if we get our first blind user I will gladly make some admends to make it more usable for them.
I have heard "we don't have blind customers" argument many times before. Apart from ethical issues that this raises, ADA requirements, technically, don't care if you have blind users or not. Accessibility is still required...