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A Reddit transcription community will shut down over a 'lack of trust' in the platform
(www.engadget.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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I'm sorry, what?
Old Reddit is more accessible than new Reddit for instance, from what I've read.
On iOS the official app doesn't even have up/down vote buttons labeled properly.
They're whitelisting a few apps only, that they've identified as assisting disabled access, but those apps are lacking in moderation tools.
They've met with some of the r/blind team, but only to TELL them how things are going to be, rather than to get their actual input on the situation and are currently refusing to even define what an accessible app would include.
At some point, it stops being ignorance and starts becoming malicious. At the very least, u/spez just doesn't care, at the worst he seems to almost actively want them gone, but doesn't want to deal with the PR fallout
Ah, the "if we don't have any vision impaired users anymore, we can save money on implementing accessibility; they won't give us ad revenue anyway" gambit.
The only thing I can figure that makes any sense at all is maybe native web functionality that will help the blind will also allow for a alternative app to be built around it (ie a wrapper) and they don't want to see that happen.
Ernest on KBin at the very least opened up a screen reader and played around to ensure it at least functioned for the blind (and this was before the first Reddit migration!)
Lemmy devs seem to have built to standards, so that helps a lot and at least allows for basic functionality to work, even if it's not optimized at all.
And both KBin & Lemmy aren't companies with thousands of employees! Just one guy & two devs respectively and they're at least attempting to do what they can while simultaneously being overwhelmed with requests!
I think it's a lot simpler than that, and u/Spez said it himself:
"It's a minority of users that doesn't reflect the general reddit population"
Same applies here. He just doesn't care, they aren't impacting his bottom line enough to make an impact. And that feels disgusting even to say