Should HN care about accessibility?

Question

I've noticed the HN site fails quite a number of key WCAG accessibility metrics (particularly around colour contrast, but even more basic stuff to ensure the site makes sense to screen readers and those needing assistive technology). Most would be simple to fix and I believe would benefit a not insignificant percentage of the userbase. As HN readers should we care? Are there any current users who have had issues using the site because of this?

PaulHoule · Accepted Answer

Contrast could be a problem.I find it hard to believe it would be that hard to use with a screen reader even though a little bit of tagging to direct the screen reader to start in the right place, navigate more effectively, etc. would help.I work on a medium-sized SPA and spent some time making it work perfectly with a screen reader, it certainly is much harder for something like my application than it would be for HN.

uberman · Answer

Is there an evaluation site you submitted a page to? I would love to see the results.