We Deserve Better from Apple: Why I Can No Longer Recommend a Mac to Fellow Blind Computer Users
We Deserve Better from Apple: Why I Can No Longer Recommend a Mac to Fellow Blind Computer Users
As many of you will know from personal experience, there is a longstanding issue with VoiceOver on Mac where Safari will frequently become unresponsive with VoiceOver repeatedly announcing the message “Safari not responding.” When this issue occurs, the user's Mac may become unusable for up to sever...
Saw this online elsewhere and figured I'd share here for discussion
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This critical problem has persisted for years across multiple MacOS versions without a permanent fix from Apple.
YEARS?!? Not even remotely excusable, let alone acceptable. What the hell is going on?
People blindly buy any new apple product. Why spend the money to change something when an overwhelming majority will buy the product anyway.
Blindly, eh?
Holy crap, if I am being honest I had no idea this was a blind community/instance. It just showed up on my all feed. Probably not the best choice of words. Feel like a jerk. Sorry to anyone who comes across my comment!
@RampageDon The article shared was a big clue
Yea. Definitely wasn't my brightest moment.
@RampageDon I hope you stick around. You might learn something mew
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.
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.
That was a great write up, nice.