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A question on behalf of a friend: which appearance theme for the LuCI GUI for #OpenWRT is the most #accessible with screen readers? Any other tips on how to make this experience more accessible?
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Marek Küthe
Marek Küthe
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Does it make any difference at all with screen readers? The theme - as far as I understand it - only changes the CSS.
Or in other words, does a screen reader read websites differently if the CSS is different?
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Paweł Masarczyk
Paweł Masarczyk
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@mark22k Yes, certain unusual CSS patterns that make sense from the perspective of the visual side may disrupt the screen reader experience i.e. items that should be hidden are still discoverable with a screen reader, the order of elements in the DOM may not correspond with the designer's intention and the visual order etc.
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Stefan Monnier
Stefan Monnier
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My understanding is that GUIs are usually worse than TUIs for #blind users. Sadly, I don't know of any #TUI for #OpenWRT (well, there's the command line, obviously, and there's a class-project over at https://github.com/mattacwilson/OpenWRT-TUI, but that's no replacement for LuCI 😞​)

GitHub - mattacwilson/OpenWRT-TUI: OpenWRT Text User Interface for my last project in Scripting for Security for my HNC in Cyber Security.

OpenWRT Text User Interface for my last project in Scripting for Security for my HNC in Cyber Security. - GitHub - mattacwilson/OpenWRT-TUI: OpenWRT Text User Interface for my last project in Scri...
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Paweł Masarczyk
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@monnier The friend in question isn't too technically inclined and would rather work with a GUI but thanks for the reply - the TUI project sounds really interesting.
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