[zersiax]

Honestly the fact that this article still needs to be written in 2026 is the designated real-big-sad imho.

Screen readers almost entirely ignore the visual layer of any UI, and are entirely dependent on the layer that most developers ignore because it's not the visual layer. It's a perfect storm.

It stands to reason that someone who's actually used to using a screen reader should be brought in to verify what you've built actually works well for that target audience.

I'm a fully blind accessibility auditor, remediator and trainer myself, but I wouldn't dare to assume to know how a mobility-impaired user using eyegaze tech fares on a website I've audited.

My eyes don't gaze, so I don't have the context to make those calls.

On that note: I'm looking for work, anyone need me to tell them how their UI is bad for accessibility and fix it for them so they don't get sued later? :P

[neverartful]

I'd like to connect with you offline for further conversation. I didn't see any contact information in your profile (and there's none currently in mine either).

[zersiax]

I'm not a hard person to find. My hackernews handle into a search engine gets you myriad ways to contact me (Mastodon, LinkedIn, etc.) but I'm at florianbeijers [at] google's mail service if email is your preferred mode of communication. I have a website at florianbeijers.xyz with a contact form, its just very much a placeholder and not really currently meant for public consumption until I revamp it