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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by blub on Thursday March 08, 2018 @09:16AM (#16544417)
JAWS is Windows-only, so your solution of just targeting JAWS is not a solution at all, since Slack runs on a lot more platforms.
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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by jbob2000 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @09:49AM (#16544616)
Accessible users are primarily on windows because JAWS runs on windows. It is not a use case for us to test accessibility on anything other than JAWS on windows.
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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by robin_reala on Thursday March 08, 2018 @11:49AM (#16545559)
It’s worth pointing out here that that’s true for the desktop market, but as with sighted users a large portion of time for blind users is taken up with mobile or tablet computing and there iOS and VoiceOver is the dominant platform.
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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by blub on Friday March 09, 2018 @01:48AM (#16550177)
Tell that to the Linux guy with vision impairment complaining here in the comments about slack.

Making software accessible just on Windows is complete bullshit and should be downright illegal.

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