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I have a tremor and I run into this issue on HN all the time. I need to zoom in a lot to be sure I'll hit it.


I don’t (yet) have accessibility challenges beyond glasses but hitting the tiny arrows is incredibly difficult. How come HN doesn’t update to be more accessible? It’s been a long time… I’m surprised it hasn’t been talked about by the team there.


As someone who has carried out accessibility audits, I can unfortunately attest to this topic being a blindspot in tech circles. I remember hanging out with fairly senior frontend devs from a FAANG company who didn't know what purpose skip links served on websites. It can also be an uphill battle to advocate for remediation once design and development work is already baked in.


Yep. And I think there’s an interesting implicit bias where younger / mornjunior developers often get tasked with things like that, so they see no problem


Do you think Paul Graham or Garry Tan give a shit about accessibility?


No.


Try https://www.modernhn.com if you haven't already. UI elements have more spacing around them, especially if zoomed in.


Hadn’t heard of this before, it looks great! Need it on mobile though, and would be happy to pay a reasonable fee for it.


You can install the addon on mobile firefox.

Ironically because of addons I now use firefox exclusively on mobile.


Same here with essential tremor. Rarely do people think of us.




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