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nxc18today at 6:31 AM2 repliesview on HN

Very slightly off topic but also on, I’ve noticed a tendency for well-meaning accessibility folks to drive to bad outcomes to meet some standard. Color is one where the standard is usually right, but there’s pretty strong evidence that the standard is bad in some cases. See APCA v WCAG. https://git.apcacontrast.com/documentation/WhyAPCA.html

If you click any link on this page (to the author’s site) and you dare to use an alternative browser on iOS, it shows a full page modal that can only be navigated around by clicking an “escape” button which tries to execute a Siri shortcut. Apparently in-app browsers are a threat to user freedom, but Orion is caught in the dragnet. Perhaps an example of the paternalist approach to development on the web gone wrong.


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jeroenhdtoday at 9:29 AM

> and you dare to use an alternative browser on iOS

The website works just fine for me on Firefox+iOS, it seems like whatever matching the author is doing just doesn't include detection for Orion.

roundabout-hosttoday at 8:44 AM

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