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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My first thought

man, we're so spoiled on Mastodon. There are like four
web apps, multiple accessible IOS and Android apps, at least two accessible Windows apps (even if they both have some issues), and a couple accessible mac apps. As users we can actually choose the one we like, rather than picking the one where the largest number of features actually work with a screen reader.

My Second Thought

Man, this should just be the default state of existence.
folks need to demand more. But I get it, it's so easy to just accept the current state of accessibility as normal, and then be surprised by things that actually work.
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Martin from Toronto @mcourcel@mstdn.ca
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@fastfinge Yup. It's a thing. I keep thinking that something bad will happen on Mastodon and it'll all become totally inaccessible. Sort of like Twitter/X, but from what I can tell, there is a totally different vibe on Mastodon. I mean, heck, people ask about how to best implement alt text? That's so cool!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel The thing I worry about more is that The fediverse will go the way of IRC, or TeamTalk, or xmpp. Something else that doesn't care as much about accessibility like bluesky will win, and the only people left using Mastodon will be blind people and the occasional luddite.
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Martin from Toronto @mcourcel@mstdn.ca
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@fastfinge Ugh, hopefully not, because I've made friends on here... and that's saying a lot.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Well, bluesky and Threads have billions of investment dollars. The rest of the fediverse just has love. We'll see who wins in the end. LOL
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