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View submission: Accessibility Updates to Mod Tools: Part 1
Will Reddit be comitting to an accessibility standard?
Discord have comitted to be WCAG 2.1 AA compliant this year[1]. Will Reddit make a similar commitment? If not to that level something similar? (Obviously the timescale may be different).
1: https://discord.com/accessibility
Whilst it's good to see a statement at last, considering how much has happened these last 2 weeks it would be good to see some actual commitment to a standard so we can measure Reddit against something.
'Improvements' are all well and good but going from terrible to bad is not adequate and it seems there's no clear goal to measure against.
Comment by parsifal at 24/06/2023 at 03:58 UTC
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I’m guessing that this is less of a serious commitment and more of a way around granting cheap API access to apps that afford more varied input modalities or hew more closely to universal design.
In other words: If Apollo came out with a big accessibility update and Reddit was forced to give it free API access, the CEO would experience emotions he finds unwelcome, so he makes Reddit employees do updates like this so they can later rescind the promise to allow accessible apps to have cheap API access.
Comment by Dragon_yum at 25/06/2023 at 19:37 UTC
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Honestly, it's rather embarrassing they aren't compliant already.
Comment by joyventure at 24/06/2023 at 00:36 UTC
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We recently conducted an accessibility audit with an external vendor and have been working on improving accessibility on the site and in our apps. Today we are committing to what we’ve shared in the post. We will provide more updates on the consumer experience in July.