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Yeah, right. Do not confuse accessibility with simplicity.

So much accessibility that:

You need to use gestures to access critical functions.

Half of screen readers cannot be connected to their hardware.

You cannot easily get someone to write a driver for exotic input hardware.

There's no zoom feature in the OS.

Recently many UIs just break with big scale factors.

Keyboard support is lacking altogether in some bits of the UI.

Information is hidden and alpears at random.

Not to say Windows or Linux is free of it or better. The platforms are bad in different ways.



I get the Apple suspicion, but there's great Zoom functionality on every Apple device I've used. Also color invert, screen reader, and a whole rack of other a11y features. I agree that it's the nicest thing about the company.


> There's no zoom feature in the OS.

macOS absolutely has a zoom feature. I use it regularly, it's bound to ctrl + mouse scroll for me.

More: https://support.apple.com/en-il/guide/mac-help/mchl779716b8/...




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