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Assistiv Labs
Company blog · assistivlabs.com/articleswebdesign
Assistiv Labs is the company blog at assistivlabs.com, writing about web and design. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on accessibility, ARIA and screen readers, such as "No ARIA is better than bad ARIA". The comments discuss screen reader behaviour and voice control barriers rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Instantly test with real screen readers, magnifiers, and more. Make sure your websites and apps are accessible.
What Hacker News says?
If you're on a mac of course the easiest screenreader to use is voiceover, if on windows NVDA - problem there is not wide consensus among screenreaders about functionality, so you will read about a way to do something and think that is the way to do this but when you actually start doing it you find it isn't going to work the way you thought, if at all. This means if you do anything good you will need to test on dif…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?”Submitted Confronting ableism to build a more inclusive web as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThe agent-driving-a-screenreader footgun is that it's quite easy to build UI that creates a reasonable screereader UX, but unintentionally creates accessibility barriers for other assistive technologies, like voice control. Ex: a search control is built as <div aria-label="Search"><input type="search"/></div>. An agent driving a screenreader is trying to accomplish a goal that requires search. Perhaps it tries using…
Comment linking /articles/automating-screen-readers-for-accessibility-testing
on “No ARIA is better than bad ARIA”Submitted The History of Sticky Keys as a story · 1 points
HN discussion