[nickbee]

How does HN stack up in terms of accessibility? Anyone using a screen reader with HN? What do you wish was different?

[Pfhreak]

I struggle with how low contrast it is. I skip 'Ask HN' style posts because they are too hard to read.

[krapp]

> I skip 'Ask HN' style posts because they are too hard to read.

That's done on purpose to discourage people from posting (or reading) them too often. PG was afraid letting people write text posts would lead to "blogging."

[Pfhreak]

Interesting. I mean, it works, I don't read those posts at all...

[joshstrange]

Can we get a source on this? Not disputing but I had never heard that before and it's interesting.

[krapp]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468471

[alistairSH]

Wow, that's a ridiculously user-hostile approach to the problem.

[nickbee]

HN was designed for a small audience, and it intentionally did things to discourage growth. The goal was to preserve the community for longer.

[Noumenon72]

I suggest highlighting the text to read in reverse video.

[jolmg]

I wish the nesting of replies were visible in elinks. I just see one post after another in a linear fashion. I can't tell which post is a reply to which. That nesting is visible on w3m, though, so that's neat.

Still, I can't seem to be able to collapse thread branches because it requires javascript. That's a shame.

I wonder if w3m would recognize something like:

    .collapse:checked + .content-and-replies-container {
      display: none;
    }