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Tumblr, accessibility matters!
Feb. 26th, 2013 04:14 pmcross-posted from my tumblr: http://ananiujitha.tumblr.com/post/44083969797/tumblr-accessibility-matters
I try to right-click on a link. but that's not actually a link. no the link is five mm below the obvious link location.
I try to click on a post so I can read it later, and finish checking my damn dashboard now. But it doesn't let me go to the post, I have to go to the blog the post comes from, and then scroll down.
I try to create a new post, but if I hit the wrong post type at the beginning I have to do everything over.
I try to respond to someone else's post, but have to hit an extra button to change it from link to plain old text, almost every single time. ow. and sometimes if I want to add a note at the beginning, I have to be careful it doesn't delete the original poster's name for no reason, and force me to start all over again, again. I add a paragraph break in a longer reply at the bottom, and tumblr jumps to the top.
I mistype a tag and accidentally delete all my tags trying to retype that one.
I try to add a trigger warning to a title, and sometimes it just won't let me.
Some blog themes make it unnecessarily hard to select specific posts.
Some blog themes have an immense picture covering the left 3/4 of the window, and the text in the right 1/8 and stretching off. I scroll right to reach the text [an extra pain] and the picture scroll right too so now there is an immense picture covering the left 3/4 of the window, and text covering the right 1/2, and overlapping the picture so it's still unreadable.
Sometimes tumblr radar shows animated gifs that make me head hurt.
Sometimes tumblr radar shows ads for companies that make me sick.
Another poster suggested xkit to make tumblr more accessible. Unfortunately, the xkit site is even less accessible.
Some users have eye or ear problems. Others have hand or arm problems. Others are sensory defensive. Others are epileptic. Many users may have problems with accessibility in Tumblr as it is now.
I try to right-click on a link. but that's not actually a link. no the link is five mm below the obvious link location.
I try to click on a post so I can read it later, and finish checking my damn dashboard now. But it doesn't let me go to the post, I have to go to the blog the post comes from, and then scroll down.
I try to create a new post, but if I hit the wrong post type at the beginning I have to do everything over.
I try to respond to someone else's post, but have to hit an extra button to change it from link to plain old text, almost every single time. ow. and sometimes if I want to add a note at the beginning, I have to be careful it doesn't delete the original poster's name for no reason, and force me to start all over again, again. I add a paragraph break in a longer reply at the bottom, and tumblr jumps to the top.
I mistype a tag and accidentally delete all my tags trying to retype that one.
I try to add a trigger warning to a title, and sometimes it just won't let me.
Some blog themes make it unnecessarily hard to select specific posts.
Some blog themes have an immense picture covering the left 3/4 of the window, and the text in the right 1/8 and stretching off. I scroll right to reach the text [an extra pain] and the picture scroll right too so now there is an immense picture covering the left 3/4 of the window, and text covering the right 1/2, and overlapping the picture so it's still unreadable.
Sometimes tumblr radar shows animated gifs that make me head hurt.
Sometimes tumblr radar shows ads for companies that make me sick.
Another poster suggested xkit to make tumblr more accessible. Unfortunately, the xkit site is even less accessible.
Some users have eye or ear problems. Others have hand or arm problems. Others are sensory defensive. Others are epileptic. Many users may have problems with accessibility in Tumblr as it is now.
