Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about. But don't worry, you might not be a part of the disabled community right now, but one day you will. We all will. "It's a matter of when, not if."
I should stay away from this, but statistically most people die with their vision good enough to not need app accessibility feature. Specifically 0.1% of people aged 55-64 are blind and 3.9% of people aged 85 or older are blind or significantly visually impaired. Meaning over 96% of people pass away seeing.
I don't agree with OP, but I also don't agree with overdramatizing the problem at the expense of facts. There are dozens of millions of people worldwide who deserve accessibility app support of a major platform, like Facebook or Instagram, but lo and behold, Facebook and Instagram do support vision accessibility.
Threads, meanwhile... launched 2 days ago. They're not a major platform yet. They're only starting, and they'll be adding accessibility features in time.
I'm all in for a good and healthy discussion and we don't need to agree 100% or make which other agree.
That is the misconception about accessibility. It should not be design and developed *only* for severe disabilities. Add/support an option to increase the font size in 10%, for example, it is an accessibility feature. Have an alt text for an image when you're in a bad LTE spot, help you to not miss out but also it is a accessibility feature. It's still shocking for me that people don't realize how many things they use daily, only exists because the disabled community had to fight for it, like sidewalk ramps.
I don't agree with you about "they're only starting". They already have this tools and they know how to use it, because they are Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. They didn't hire an entire team overnight, they reallocated people from the others platforms to work on this. So, IMHO they just choose to not implement the basic accessibility features.
3cats-in-a-coat|2 years ago
I don't agree with OP, but I also don't agree with overdramatizing the problem at the expense of facts. There are dozens of millions of people worldwide who deserve accessibility app support of a major platform, like Facebook or Instagram, but lo and behold, Facebook and Instagram do support vision accessibility.
Threads, meanwhile... launched 2 days ago. They're not a major platform yet. They're only starting, and they'll be adding accessibility features in time.
purrgers|2 years ago
That is the misconception about accessibility. It should not be design and developed *only* for severe disabilities. Add/support an option to increase the font size in 10%, for example, it is an accessibility feature. Have an alt text for an image when you're in a bad LTE spot, help you to not miss out but also it is a accessibility feature. It's still shocking for me that people don't realize how many things they use daily, only exists because the disabled community had to fight for it, like sidewalk ramps.
I don't agree with you about "they're only starting". They already have this tools and they know how to use it, because they are Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. They didn't hire an entire team overnight, they reallocated people from the others platforms to work on this. So, IMHO they just choose to not implement the basic accessibility features.