Accessibility and default text

[sqbr]

Via access_fandom I came across the post suggestion for style documentation which alerted me to the fact that not only does a change like "make a comment" to "leave a footprint" cause people issues (especially if they're feeling brain-foggy), but even easy-to-interpret changes like "Comment here!" mess up screen navigation macros for people using certain types of readers.

So, though it pained me I have reset all of mine to the default. I may change some of them back if I feel heavily inspired to, but a lot of the changes were kind of arbitrary and silly.

(Yes, such people can always use style=mine but this way they have a chance to see the little chickens on my lj!)

Comments

[hl]

Uh, never thought of it that way. Thanks for posting about it--I'll change to the default, too.

[sqbr]

I never thought of it either which is why I decided to post about it.

[ex_peasant441]

An awful lot of web accessibility boils down to 'do the same as everyone else'.

It's interesting seeing how there seems to be growing awareness of web accessibility issues amongst the social-justice crowd. It's a bit like a meme I suppose, once one person in the set gets interested the buzz starts to go around. As a coding geek I've always been heavily into accessibility for years and so it's always struck me as common sense, and to do with coding and attracting users. It's weird to see peeps pushing it as a social justice issue these days - two separate parts of my world view end up mushing together. Not in a 'bad things will result from the collision' sort of way but in a mixy way that I personally find confusing.

[sqbr]

Yes, it is funny. Kind of like how saving energy is both a cost-cutting and environmental concern, but people tend not to see it both ways at once.