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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (5 children)

HOLY SMOKES. /u/spez accidentally copied the "A:" in one of his replies (it's now edited out), but someone got an archive πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ https://archive.ph/X6EJq

Transparency completely failed

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Not defending that joke of an AMA or joke of a CEO, I think it's reasonable that he'll have a few prepared answers about expected topics (accessibility in this case) and copy/paste it into the chat. Now why he still manage to answer only a dozen question is, well, a good question...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Copy-pasted answer which means copy-pasted question. You can draw the conclusion here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It might be a council of other c-suites and lawyers, picking questions and forming answers, then sending them to spez to answer.
Not necessarily planted questions with prepared answers. And not necessarily generic answers to predicted questions.

Still, not a great look

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Ohhhhh I see now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It was all a sham

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wouldn't draw so many conclusions about an alphanumeric character and colon.

The response on accessibility though, holy shit. One of the early things I learned when I first coded for accessibility was to not try to make a separate "Accessible version/mode" of a site, or try in any way to intrusively "qualify" users as needing accessible changes before helping them. ("Are you really, TRUTHFULLY, blind???//?")

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

One of the early things I learned when I first coded for accessibility was to not try to make a separate β€œAccessible version/mode” of a site

This. It's so easy now, especially with HTML5, to make an accessible website. When I redesigned my personal website it was ridiculously easy to make it accessible, testing tab navigation, devtools accessibility checks, a screen reader and webaim's site to verify that each page was structured in a sensible way. I don't have any impairments to validate how useful these would be, but it took comparatively not much time ensuring the best effort was put forward in making the site accessible.

I can't see why Reddit, a company with people paid to work on the site and app, hasn't already done it. Empty responses such as "we can do better" and failing to engage with the communities on their platform that rely on their APIs to make Reddit accessible to all (such as those with volunteers transcribing content for blind users) just lays it bare that Reddit doesn't actually care

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

For real. That's one of the first things I learned in web design - accessibility-first, mobile-first. Accessibility is a lot easier with the use of things like aria labels and alt properties.

Not everybody can use the stairs, but everybody can use the ramp: if you're going to start off with one, then start with the ramp.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That's hilarious