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by darekkay 2095 days ago
Not choosing and inaccessible platform was the right thing to do. Hopefully this will make Automattic reconsider their priorities regarding web accessibility.

Related write-up: https://adrianroselli.com/2020/09/gutenberg-accessibility-co...

3 comments

I am an adult with no accessibility challenges and I still find Gutenberg a piece of crap whose interface seems designed to make you pull your hair out.

All my clients who just want to write posts ask me to turn the damn thing off. Somebody once yelled, "WTF is this stupid thing making me add blocks for each subheading and paragraph? That is not how writing works!"

“This post is only visible to RSS feed readers, unless you got here by manually parsing the feed (weirdo) or someone shared the link with you (they probably should not have).”

wat

There's a link to the RSS Club in the next sentence. I broke the "second rule of RSS Club", because I feel accessibility advocacy is more important.
RSS-only content to ... make RSS feel exclusive? Ruin their own discoverability? As an RSS user, this seems like a terrible idea.
Thinking further, I think it'd be better to have posts that are delayed for a time on the main site, but appear immediately in the feed.
Ironic that the link looks kinda... terrible.

I can read it, but it's not pleasant at all.

Adrian is a talented designer. I've known of him since his evolt.org days. Rather surprising then that this is the design he went with. But hey, personal blog allowances, I guess.
The entire first screen on a 1080 monitor is made of broken looking headers and an outrageously large title. Just garbage.
Design is entirely broken in Firefox on android... Half the header is cut off etc
That's how it's supposed to look. I think.

It is truly terrible, isn't it!

Fwiw, it works perfectly for me, no issues whatsoever. Which is rare. Ff on Android too, but 68.8 (I dare not upgrade, lest I lose uMatrix).
Hover your mouse over the header.
on Android?
Apologies. Missed that.
Gotta love turning zoom to 67%.