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by alsetmusic 3637 days ago
> Just what this conversation needs - someone who fundamentally doesn't get that web browsers and their derivatives have more affordances for accessibility than a native terminal interface ever did.

I do not have sight impairment, but I'm quite certain that I could navigate a fixed number of keystrokes more reliably than I could operate a mouse. If I were listening to synthesized speech dictating on-screen output, I know that the option that makes the most sense is four taps back and one up. Finding that with a mouse would be unnecessarily complex by comparison.

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I don't understand why you're perfectly happy to consider assistive technology for your terminal but completely unwilling to consider assistive technology for the browser.

The Web is an order of magnitude more tooled for usability than nearly any application you use on a day to day basis. Requiring pointer actions has nothing to do with that.