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Re:Slack will never replace email by dragonsngoblins on Monday June 17, 2019 @03:16AM (#20200630)
For blindness it is relatively easy to simulate for a sighted person as long as the blindness they are trying to simulate is total rather than partial, just turn the screen off.

But a sighted user will be much less proficient at using anything like that, so it is probably better to find someone who isn't sighted and so does everything like that. Otherwise it will take far longer to recognise any issues

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Re:Slack will never replace email by masklinn on Monday June 17, 2019 @03:23AM (#20200659)
> But a sighted user will be much less proficient at using anything like that

Not only that, but they'll be stumbling around not really knowing how vision-impaired users actually work with their devices, so they would have issue an impaired user would not have, and not hit issues an impaired power-user would.

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