Anyone try several of the Lemmy IOS apps? Which ones work the best with Voiceover? I just tried memmy and it's generally usable but the downvote and upvote buttons aren't accessible and the edit boxes for creating new posts are not as usable as I'd like. I did submit some feedback on this but obviously it's a new app and the developers are going to be busy for a while.

Thank the wefwef devs for the ability to change font size! I can use even bigger font sizes than Apollo had now. Yay!

So apparently http://rblind.com has been created as a lemmy instance by some refugees from r/blind, which is awesome. There is a lot of discussion already in the main sublemmy, so

!main@rblind.com

or, alternatively

http://rblind.com/c/main

might be interesting to anyone who reads this. I think it's very exciting to have a blindness focused instance, so we can have subcommunities within the context of blindness.

I also want to mention that I originally created !blind@lemmy.world because I wanted to discuss some screen reader issues, and there was no other place at the time. If the r/blind mods are interested in having mod access to this community, just give me a heads up.

So by default the feed on the home page auto-updates, suddenly making new posts appear. This causes various issues with screen readers. Here's a post explaining how to turn it off with a workaround.

https://lemmy.world/post/390268

So to tl;dr, what I had to do is: On the home page, (e.g. http://lemmy.world), select any of the sorting options (e.g. subscribed only) by tabbing into the radio select item and hitting space. This then changes the address bar to something like

https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/Subscribed/sort/Active/page/1

Changing the 1 at the end to a 0 will bring up the same page, without auto updating. I also found that honestly the URL is a more convenient interface to the sorting options, at least for me.

Hope anyone finds this useful.

So I just came over from reddit and I figure this would be a good place to accumulate some experiences with screen reader navigation on lemmy.

I myself use orca on arch linux. The site seems usable so far. Posts are level 5 headings, and though I wish they would have used the paragraph tag for navigating posts with p, I can use o to jump to large objects, which will read out posts.

The biggest problem I encountered so far was during community creation, where the language multi-select list did not indicate which languages were selected/deselected. Still trying to figure this out atm, as the edit community button also doesn't seem to be selectable with keyboard. This problem seems to repeat when making a post.

Selecting a community when making a post is also a little tricky. I was able to do it by clicking (with numpad) on 'Community', which opens a combo box with a list of many communities. I then hat to hit 'tab', orca will say 'Combo box collapsed', and I could type in 'blind'. The list of selections then changed to a list with only 2 options, this one and one other. Selecting 'blind' with the arrow keys and hitting enter selected the 'blind' community successfully. I think this could be much improved.

Anyways, I'll probably edit the post when more comes up. Would be glad to hear other's experiences. Both problems and workarounds.