RE: Web Accessibility - Clickable Objects and Screen Readers
I have a belief that a focus on accessibility often will be a net benefit for society as such. For one thing, web sites designed to be universally accessible will often render better across different platforms and devices (not much of a problem today - but I consider the late 90s and early 2000s as the "dark age" of the web, "impressive" web sites were built, but they were only "impressive" as they were demonstrated on computers with the right screen resolution, a LAN-connection to the server, some exact version of Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc - viewed on any other platform or with low bandwidth, they would fail).
On Steem there is a tendency to post screenshots whenever one wants to represent text from some other web site or application. This is bad, bad, bad - even though OCR software exists, I guess those screenshots can't be read by people like @aiyumi. It also can't be collected by search engines, it may be unreadable from some mobile browsers, etc, etc.
Agreed. And those screenshots are frustrating! Especially when people post tutorials and don't explain anything with text. For example, instead of saying, "Go to 'Edit' > 'Preferences' and enable the XYZ option" they just say, "Do it like this:" and post a screenshot "And you'll get this:" and another screenshot. Having both the screenshot and a basic outline of the steps as text would be ideal. A picture is worth a thousand words to those who can see it, but those who can't need at least a few words.
Video references too ... I'm able to both see the video stream and hear the audio stream, but I still usually don't play videos for several reasons.
Some few times I also feel I've wasted fifteen minutes of my life watching something that could easily have been covered by five sentences of text.
Having those five lines of text in the post in addition to the video link is just perfect, I can skip watching the video.
Ugh, this reminded me of those video tutorials about... programming! Without any textual explanation or sample code... I bet even some sighted people have a problem with those.