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We shouldn’t talk about screenreader access like it’s basic or simple. We call it basic to encourage people to follow web/OS standards, but esentially lying about the challenge helps no one. Nor are screenreaders simple to use! We tech literate people are used to them but it’s nothing compared to the UX of glancing at a screen and tapping/clicking a mouse. Good luck teaching the modern web to a blind person who’s 65 and thinks “the big blue e” is how to access the internet.

—@objectinspace

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In reply to @lauren.

@lauren @fireborn @adora So by way of example, Seeing AI from Microsoft uses AI now for image recognition. I use it sometimes to try to figure out, say, what a label on a can says, or what color my shirt is. It sometimes gets these wrong and I need to double check with a sighted person. There's also OCR, which is technically in this category and which all too frequently still has to be manually corrected for readability/accuracy of text.