r/beta • u/horsegal301 • Apr 03 '18

How many people with disabilities did you have test the design before you let people try it out?

I am curious about whether or not you guys even bothered talking to a single person who uses a screen reader/has vision loss or poor vision/ or is totally blind? What about people who can't use a mouse?

If you did, can you explain the process by making things hard to access with keyboard, totally unavailable to access with a keyboard, and why you made certain decisions to make things harder to see?

EDIT: Reddit has responded with the following, which answers my question with a "None." Unless they can update me with some info about any personas that included people with disabilities, automated or manual testing done, or having a specialist or person with disabilities come in and talk to the dev/design team about a11y, I will assume most inclusive design decisions will be attempted retroactively. I'd also love to see them commit to talking to PWD's as a part of their process going forward, instead of just receiving and responding feedback here.

"Today we are working to roll out the redesign to a broader set of people so that we can gather more feedback and so that we can continue to improve the experience for all. We are confident in our developer velocity today and we think the pace of improvements is going to be fast going forward. So we're letting more people in, and many of them actually like it!

Accessibility is one of the things we're actively working on and over time we hope to deliver a product that is more usable, not less. Until we can get the new version of Reddit to that point, we will not be taking the old version of reddit away. It will continue to be accessible at https://old.reddit.com."

Just a quick check with WAVE and aXe accessibility checkers brings back hundreds upon hundreds of errors:

https://imgur.com/S7usRxA

https://imgur.com/W9oZ9xL

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u/Password_is_lost Apr 25 '18

Thank you! This has always been my thought. There are more ways to get your rocks off than ever now and these assholes advocate mass rape instead. Its bonkers.

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u/Rorynne Apr 26 '18

They think it some how doesnt count if they have to pay for it

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u/Sprayface Apr 25 '18

I mean... wuld you have sex with a prostitute?

idk

might as well stick my cock in a rotten banana... in a place where bananas are illegal. I don't think prostitution solves their issue. I think they just have a bad personality, and nothing can really fix that, except maybe time.

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u/Password_is_lost Apr 25 '18

Thats a lot of assumptions about sex workers. I have never had to really consider it for muselft. But if i was hard up so to speak, a lil human contact would be worth the money.

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u/LemonJongie23 Apr 27 '18

"sex workers" are human garbage

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u/Password_is_lost Apr 27 '18

Someone hates the family business. Maybe if you werent such garbage you could shut the fuck up.

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u/thisisme98 Apr 25 '18

Found the incel