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Going it alone on digital accessibility (mastodon.social)

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Mu-An Chiou talks about trying to improve accessibility, without support or resources, at GitHub prior to its purchase by Microsoft.

Mu-An writes:

Eventually, I found that there are tons of accessibility issues that are just stale, and a lot of them were just like: this icon button isn’t labeled. I looked at them and thought oh that’s easy. I will fix it.

At one point I added so many aria-labels that AT users got mad that they’re getting misused.

Yes that was me. I am very sorry. I had no idea what I was doing. But then I learned the error of my ways and tried to be better.

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[–] Anticorp 2 points 1 week ago

It's shocking how inaccessible a lot of Microsoft products are, considering that they made accessibility their primary concern for several years, and spent billions of dollars on accessibility teams.