Accessibility is important for everyone. At the very least, I accept my own body has increasing challenges as I age. Other people are born with or develop challenges across the spectra, and we’re all in this together.
I love that text-to-speech exists, and I used it for ebooks years before a blind friend explained VoiceOver on iOS (whoah, fast taking!), even though I needed TTS even less back then. With numerous family members with sensory challenges I’m increasingly looking for ways to help them, and I prefer Linux and FOSS software. I’m working towards contributing. For those of you who make anything, please consider the spectrum of abilities.
If you have any influence over the size of UI elements in music streaming services, for example, please help make them bigger. Even putting boxes around the buttons would help limit miss-taps-—frustrating to interrupt a current song by playing the one I want to queue, for example.
