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View submission: Accessibility Updates to Mod Tools: Part 1
Appreciate the efforts, all of the actual nonsense is above your pay grade, but everyone here reading this needs to know that even with this post, reddit is completely missing the boat.
Those accessibility tools blind and visually impaired folks use, per /r/Blind, overwhelmingly are mainstream third-party apps such as Apollo, RIF, Boost, Sync, etc. that reddit is killing.
Disabled people by definition have to accomplish the same tasks as the rest of us differently, and when they are able to do so, (speaking in reality here), they often do so with more difficulty than the rest of us.
Reddit is making the lives of disabled Redditors less rich, and more difficult. You've already killed off TranscribersOfReddit[1], the Wikipedia of accessibility. It's an absolutely amazing third-party project that fills in the unbelievable accessibility gap Reddit has where you don't even allow alternate text on images (for the blind/visually impaired) or audio (for the deaf).
Reddit has done incalculable damage already, some half-baked "accessible" mod tools aren't going to fix it.
You need to cancel the API pricing changes, apologize to the community, **most of all to the disabled users reddit has clearly never really thought about until this month**, and go back to the drawing board for reasonable API pricing changes on a reasonable timeline.
I work in Cloud Computing for a living and at $12,000/5M requests(!!), you're charging about 100x more than what is reasonable. I just quoted a customer $0.80 (eighty cents) for 5 million Lambda calls on AWS so 100x more might possibly be an understatement.
Find a win-win pricing model for goodness sake, which would allow both Reddit and third-party apps to profit off your API.
Win-win pricing is right there, even to an outsider. It makes it clear you're looking neither for win-wins, nor are you seeking to be reasonable. The fact Reddit doesn't seem interested in reasonable API pricing, **especially given the accessibility issues that reddit decided to create for disabled users out of thin air**, is infuriating.
Comment by TranZeitgeist at 24/06/2023 at 14:18 UTC
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The existing tools disabled folks currently use and are accustomed to need to be preserved.
OP let them butcher the tools and communities used by actual people to access this site, failing both the "accessibility" and "stability" facets of their directorship role.