[justinph]

The accessibility of this leaves a lot to be desired:

- There are no landmarks.

- The keyboard navigation works poorly.

- There are no live regions to show changing content.

- The markup is a sea of divs and spans, so there is no structure to the content.

- There is no visible focus indicator.

Some of the advanced layouts do not work at all in Safari, accessible or otherwise.

[prabhuignoto]

thanks for your response.

The project is still actively under development and accessiblity is something not yet fully implemented but the goal is to get there eventually very quickly. I have not advertised as fully accessible.

Can you clarify a bit more on the keyboard navigation working poorly. may be logging a issue on the repo would help me to solve it quickly.

as for problems in safari, i use a windows laptop and i haven't got the opportunity to test on safari thoroughly. But this will be looked into on high priority.

[mdifrgechd]

I understand the importance of accessibility (obviously) but I've see that there is a whole community whose first response to anything new is "what about..." as if its unthinkable that you would build a V0 without considering every possible special interest. I think everyone if pulled up by progress, and building something new, even if it doesnt work for everyone out of the gate is still a step in the right direction that will eventually lift everyone up. So don't worry about the "what about..." people, they want to bring everybody down

[leppr]

Detailed criticism is meant to bring people up, not down. There are better web communities if the only thing you want to get is encouragements (not that encouragement is bad, but it's way cheaper than criticism). It's your choice to see the critique as "this is a roadblock", or "this could be a good roadmap item".

[prabhuignoto]

thank you

[thiht]

> Some of the advanced layouts do not work at all in Safari

To be fair, a lot of simple stuff doesn't work on Safari. I recently noticed that Graylog's static navbar is broken on Safari, and only on Safari.

I use Safari because it offers great battery life but I don't expect it to work well everywhere, it sucks as a browser.

[rasapetter]

Why so negative?

[onion2k]

Accessibility shouldn't be an afterthought. It really needs to be baked in from the start.

[emteycz]

At the same time, this is not public infrastructure. This is a gift to you.

[onion2k]

If someone gives you a broken gift you should tell them so they can return it to be mended..

[yazaddaruvala]

If someone gives you a gift you think is broken, you ask them to empower you to help mend it. And if they offer to get it mended, you at least offer to go with them.

That said, yes accessibility should be prioritized.

[emteycz]

That's not how it works with stuff people made personally.

[prabhuignoto]

agree with you. accessibility will be looked into on high priority.

[cagenut]

Nothing in that list was "negative". They were all dry factual statements. Tone policing people for being "negative" when they're not is in and of itself quite a negative thing.

[jjeaff]

Seriously? The very first line was negative:

"leaves a lot to be desired"

If you don't want to be considered a jerk, in polite company you would say something like "This is a nice project. I have a few suggestions and bugs regarding accessibility:"

[akeck]

Unfortunately, people often file lawsuits over lack of accessibility (at least in the US).