Blue Sky not accessible? This is very interesting

There is a two part boost that caught my attention.

Brandon: Boosting Changeling and Alex (changeling): I just did a post on #Bluesky pointing out that the #A11y issues that impact screen reader users it’s had since Day One and the message we’re getting from their developers is we aren’t welcome there. This is particularly interesting as more and more accounts from Twitter, all of which concerned with human rights in some way, are going over there. Blind people may be slowly bweing left in the dark, particularly for info surrounding #BIPOC, #LGBTQIA! and #PopCulture matters. (1/2)

Brandon: Boosting Changeling and Alex (changeling): This is somewhat vexing to me as access to information is a basic human right and the degradation and splintering of social media is directly impacting the info flow. I’m not even sure what could be done about it. (2/2)

This is a very interesting post set, as I’ve personally not been on Blue Sky.

I don’t know if any applications llike Mona for the phone or Tweesecake for the computer work with it. I know that Tweesecake doesn’t, but I’m talking about applications like these in general.

While I’ve heard about Bluesky since the migration from Twitter began when Elon took over Twitter, it was in closed beta. Then eventually, it opened up, but seeing these two postshave a valuable point.

If Bluesky is to have any clout within this field, it must make its services accessible. The problem is, that nobody was able to test this in any form before it became public. Now that its open, we’re finding out what its like.

The bigger question is, who do we end up advocating to over there at Bluesky if we want accessibility there?

Last I knew, there were apps that worked with it, but this was in the early days, and I’ve seen nothing from that contact since. They posted about Bluesky on a regular and the various apps that could be used.

Learn more at bsky.social.

I’d be curious what people find out and I’d love to hear from you!