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Nurbs
@Nurbs

As a disabled person, who does a lot of disability advocacy in the software space, I feel like a lot of people misunderstand what screen readers can do now days. It kind of bothers me that people havin a bit of fun can be so readily attacked as anti-accessibility/ableist when in fact, there's solutions in the space we've had for years.

Just FYI, it's normal for you to end up with just huge banks of internet slang in the pronunciation substitution feature, and worst case, it'll just spell it out which isn't a huge deal.

Also the expensive screenreaders can sound weird slang stuff out and read from images and stuff! Hell I think the iPhone one can do that now.


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honestly i think you're the only person i've seen in any of the accessibility posts who has actually posted what a screenreader looks like or been able to describe how it works

and like, i know you, i have a pretty fucking high confidence level that when you post about this, you know what you're talking about

I am only a casual screen reader user to be clear. I only use one if I have a migraine and can't read, or if I'm at work testing to see if something works right in screen readers.

But I do end up using every screen reader for aforementioned testing so I'm somewhat aware of what they can/can't do right now.

Sadly a lot of the really nice stuff is locked behind EXTREMELY expensive commercial ones. :(

I am only a casual screen reader user to be clear. I only use one if I have a migraine and can't read

yooo same its so helpful when my brain wont let me focus on reading words. and i never even would have tried it if not for the iOS builtin one being, well, builtin! and easy to dabble with. I love that

Oh but you see, they dont want to have to learn how to use a screen reader, they want to police what other entities say or do until it falls into their extremely narrow idea of what is acceptable.

This is a rad post though, and you're rad for making it.

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