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by miki123211 854 days ago
> what are the most used accessibility features

ramps (by parents with babies in their strollers), subtitles (by people learning languages or in loud environments), audio description (by truck drivers who want to watch Netflix but can't look at the screen), audiobooks (initially designed for the blind, later picked up by the mainstream market), OCR (same story), text-to-speech, speech-to-text and voice assistants (same story again), talking elevators (because it turns out they're actually convenient), accessibility labels on buttons (in end-to-end testing, because they change far less often than CSS classes), I could go on for hours.

For user interfaces specifically, programmatic access is also used by automation tools like Auto ID or Autohotkey, testing frameworks (there's no way to do end-to-end testing without this), and sometimes even scrapers and ad blockers.