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Accessibility Issues on Hacker News (webaim.org)
3 points by JulianRaphael on April 19, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


A vision-impaired colleague of mine wanted to check out Hacker News today and made me aware that the contrasts on HN make it really hard for people with impaired vision to read on this website. Using his screen reader (NVDA) didn't help much as the front page doesn't seem to take screen reading software into account. Has someone built a more accessible version of HN? Also, does the HN team plan to make HN more accessible in the future?


Yes, unfortunately there are many accessibility issues with Hacker News, insufficient contrast ratio being the biggest problem: https://darekkay.com/evaluatory/demo/4.html




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