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Re: Response To Keyboard accessibility

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: Jul 6, 2023 4:30AM

I adore responses like that. "People with disabilities don't use our site, so we don't focus on fixing things like this." Gosh, I wonder WHY people with disabilities don't use your site.

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Kevin Prince
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Subject: [WebAIM] Response To Keyboard accessibility

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Hello WebAim,

This week, I have been in correspondence with a Social Media website representative from Minds.com. The issue at hand is completing the registration process with keyboard only.
I am pasting his response in part below, to inject the idea that addressing access concerns to some may be based on the number of requests for such to be provided.
Response From Minds Staff
Using shift and tab+shift seems to scroll up and down through the various input fields on the registration page, though curiously it does look like the checkboxes for our terms are never highlighted, and I can't find a way to check them. Unfortunately though, and I'm just going to be blunt and honest with you about this: I don't think this is an issue with enough urgency for our development team. You are the first person in 10k+ tickets to ever write to us with a keyboard-only setup.


Note: I did suggest that their posture on access would eliminate possible audience for Minds.com.

Once again, thank you.

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David C. Russell, Author
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