Saw this online elsewhere and figured I’d share here for discussion

  • RampageDon@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yea, a dumb mistake on my part won’t make me shy away. It was super cool to find this place, even if it was through my ignorance. Don’t know any blind people irl so the thought never really crossed my mind that there would be a dedicated community like this.

    • cordlordOP
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      1 year ago

      The freedom to create third-party clients (apps) for social media platforms has a really vital effect on accessibility, because it facilitates friendly competition (and productive copying) among a wide range of client apps, as well as allowing disabled app developers to freely create apps that meet their own accessibility needs.

      Reddit’s rug-pull with free API usage was thus especially controversial among blind users, virtually all of whom were using one of various third-party apps. While Reddit eventually made some gestures towards accessibility improvements in the first-party client, this place was nonetheless created as a hedge against their caprices.

      Feel free to sub! Like the rest of Lemmy, this community has a lot of growing to do if it’s to replace its counterparts among the proprietary monoliths.