[DanBC]

You've been saying recently that HN is like a water cooler.

I feel like disabled people talking about how frustrating they find it when a well funded company makes accessibility mistakes are a useful part of that water cooler conversation.

I know some people find this meta discussion about website accessibility tedious, but perhaps those people should try to show a bit of insight into just how tedious disabled people find it to have to keep making this point, year after year.

(FWIW, I did stop making comments about the accessibility of sites after you said this 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739 )

[dang]

I don't know a good solution. Those concerns are for sure legitimate, and at the same time it's tiresome when complaints about website formatting crop up often in threads. Especially because meta complaints show up about those complaints, and then meta meta, and so on.

Perhaps the solution is for people to express accessibility concerns to the proprietors of the websites in question, instead of to forums where the concerns are most likely not going to be seen by the people who would need to fix them.

The watercooler aspect of HN goes back to the beginning, btw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8314 - though it's true that I've been citing it more lately.