You know by “accessibility” they mean making the site easier to use for blind and differently abled people, right? You can set firefox to automatically open all links in a new tab if it’s that important.
Exiting Lemmy by clicking on a link doesn’t seem to me to improve handling for the blind, rather the opposite.
As I said, it’s not such an important thing, it’s just annoying sometimes and at least one indicator about it, whether a link is local or external would improve accessibility.
I add that I am a fairly old person with visual deficiencies due to my age.
Sorry if I offended you, but I think we’re talking about different things. Fully blind people use screen readers which are designed to read web elements that conform to a certain standard, and going against that standard makes the screenreader behave unexpectedly, which can be confusing for someone reading the page in a linear audio or braille format.
For your situation I’d recommend something like Link Alert on Firefox. This sort of thing should be standard browser behavior, tbh. Putting it on webdevs is bad practice.
No, I’m not offended, I was just pointing to something that didn’t seem right to me.
I don’t know how a screenreader works and what complications can exist in its use, I’m not blind yet, only sometimes I leave the imprint of my nose on the screen. Age does not forgive.
You know by “accessibility” they mean making the site easier to use for blind and differently abled people, right? You can set firefox to automatically open all links in a new tab if it’s that important.
Exiting Lemmy by clicking on a link doesn’t seem to me to improve handling for the blind, rather the opposite. As I said, it’s not such an important thing, it’s just annoying sometimes and at least one indicator about it, whether a link is local or external would improve accessibility. I add that I am a fairly old person with visual deficiencies due to my age.
Sorry if I offended you, but I think we’re talking about different things. Fully blind people use screen readers which are designed to read web elements that conform to a certain standard, and going against that standard makes the screenreader behave unexpectedly, which can be confusing for someone reading the page in a linear audio or braille format.
For your situation I’d recommend something like Link Alert on Firefox. This sort of thing should be standard browser behavior, tbh. Putting it on webdevs is bad practice.
No, I’m not offended, I was just pointing to something that didn’t seem right to me. I don’t know how a screenreader works and what complications can exist in its use, I’m not blind yet, only sometimes I leave the imprint of my nose on the screen. Age does not forgive.
I believe you are referring to the following setting in Firefox preferences:
I have this checked and it doesn’t work (i.e. doesn’t open links in new tabs).