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Maybe one day Claude can rewrite its interface to be more accessible to blind people like me.


What is inaccessible about it? It's kind of hard to discuss without any particulars.


Curious what a11y issues you see with Claude? I use it a remarkable amount and haven't found any showstoppers. Web interface and Claude Code.


> A blind person like me...

you:

> what a11y issues you see


Yes. I am also blind. Blind people can use the word "see." Or ... did you have an actual point?


Claude has no TTS while most LLMs have it. It makes the text more accessible.


The iOS just gained tts, although for some reason it doesn't use the voice mode voice and sounds really really bad. But it's technically there.


Anthropic are looking to make money. They need to make absolutely absurd amounts of money to afford the R&D expenses they've already incurred. Features get prioritized based on how much money they might make. Unless forced to by regulation (or maybe social pressure on the executives, but that really only comes from their same class instead of the general public these days) smaller groups of customers get served last. There aren't that many blind people, so there's not very much profit incentive to serve blind people. Unless they're actually violating the ADA or another law or regulation, and can't bribe the regulators for less than the cost of fines or fixing the issue, I'd not expect any improvement.


Their app being top of the line, because they coded their app in their app, would certainly be a nice natural endorsement of the product.




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