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Georgiana BrummellAttention, blind Akkoma users! I will be writing to the developer with my concerns about a few problems with accessibility on this platform. Most should be easy to resolve. Please let me know if you find any more, and also state what browser and screen reader you are using. Note: This is in reference to the site itself, not to your client of choice. I will post about that separately. For the record, I use NVDA with Firefox.<ol><li>Many buttons are unlabelled and simply say "button". This is true on the main page as well as when viewing posts and tabs in profiles. Most work once pressed. They just need to be labelled.</li><li>Searching for people, tags, groups, and posts is inaccessible. I can enter the edit field and write my text, but then, there are two unlabelled buttons next to that. The first simply takes me back to the edit field. The second does nothing. I am assuming this is a submit button that doesn't work via the keyboard.</li><li>It is impossible to view followers, as well as those whom I follow. I can see the numbers of each but not the people and groups themselves.</li><li>I cannot read my own profile without editing it. There appears to be no link where I can simply view it, either as myself or anonymously. If I go to my page and am not logged in, however, I can view it. I can also easily edit it when logged in.</li><li>The page renders very differently in Chrome than in Firefox. In Chrome, I can't see anything but my notifications, so I can't get to my page or the other timelines.</li></ol><a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accessibility</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Akkoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Akkoma</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blind</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Blob.cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blob.cat</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chrome</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=JAWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JAWS</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=NVDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NVDA</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=html" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#html</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=ScreenReaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScreenReaders</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=SemanticHtml" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SemanticHtml</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Supermium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Supermium</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a>

Georgiana BrummellNote: Despite this negative post, the people at Newsmast do take accessibility seriously and have said they would fix the issues that I mentioned earlier. So please don't let this reflect on them. I only told them about these a few days ago. Today, I found the new ones. Maybe, their site is simply not working properly for anyone at the moment. I found yet more inaccessibility with newsmast. I went there using Supermium, and hit all the "button" links until I found the one that was for communities. I tried to follow one by entering my Friendica.world information, and told it to authorise the interaction, which is all normal and is how I joined the others when I found myself tagged in them. Then, I was sent to a page that asked me about my birthday, location, etc. I had never seen this when joining a Newsmast page, but I began doing it. There was an edit box for country, but regardless of what I typed, it kept telling me that I needed to select a country. But there was no combobox to do so, just an edit box for typing. I closed the window and tried to return to the communities page, but it kept returning me to the form where I had to enter my location, even when I specifically removed that part of the url. I'm going to try it with Firefox, which is a bit more accessible with the site (it shows some links not all unlabelled buttons), but this shouldn't be happening. I also need to figure out how to delete the cookie from Supermium so that I can visit the site without the prompt.Update. I just went there with Firefox. I was able to find and follow a community. Again, it sent me to the location page, even when I closed the initial one that opened. Now, whenever I go there, it does the same. I guess I have to use a different browser or virtual machine every time I want to join a community, or just type a large number of tags into one post, hoping that some are communities, so that they will boost my meaningless post, just so that I might be lucky enough to land on their follow page and not the location one again. Yes, that was sarcasm. In reality, I'll just go back to my other pages that list various tags and communities to join because they work. <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accessibility</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blind</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=blindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blindness</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Newsmast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Newsmast</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=NVDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NVDA</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Supermium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Supermium</a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a> @newsmast.org @newsmast

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