Saw this online elsewhere and figured I’d share here for discussion

  • cordlord@rblind.comOP
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    1 year ago

    The freedom to create third-party clients (apps) for social media platforms has a really vital effect on accessibility, because it facilitates friendly competition (and productive copying) among a wide range of client apps, as well as allowing disabled app developers to freely create apps that meet their own accessibility needs.

    Reddit’s rug-pull with free API usage was thus especially controversial among blind users, virtually all of whom were using one of various third-party apps. While Reddit eventually made some gestures towards accessibility improvements in the first-party client, this place was nonetheless created as a hedge against their caprices.

    Feel free to sub! Like the rest of Lemmy, this community has a lot of growing to do if it’s to replace its counterparts among the proprietary monoliths.