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Re:Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go by onion2k on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:44PM (#33497606)
When I added a similar feature to an app a few years ago I found about 5% of users selected the high contrast theme. Our UX person talked to users and found loads of people using crappy old corporate LCD monitors that should have gone in the bin years ago found it really useful.

The moral of the story is that users who don't need a feature will still use it.

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Re:Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go by TheNewsIsHere on Sunday November 06, 2022 @10:25PM (#33500742)
A few months back I enabled some high contrast and white point settings on my iPhone.

I’m not visually impaired, but the UI is just so much better now. It’s made me stop and fiddle with the accessibility settings in other things too.

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Re:Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go by miki123211 on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:43AM (#33503577)
This is how accommodations work, and have always worked.

From what I've heard from people in the industry, apparently a significant portion of users consuming audio described movies and TV shows, originally aimed at blind people, are truck drivers who have to look at the road, not the screen.

Audiobooks and OCR technology, also originally developed with the blind in mind, are now used by many fully-abled people in their lives.

Closed captions, originally intended for the hearing-impaired, are now a staple of many bars, where the chatter is so loud that nobody can hear the TV.

There are many more examples.

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