Whitney Loblaw<p><a href="https://mastodon.indie.host/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.indie.host/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.indie.host/tags/RStudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RStudio</span></a> is the most popular IDE for R, however it is inaccessible to sight-impaired users given that screen readers catch a lot of rubbish. In my limited testing, the audio is useless.</p><p>According to the RStudio website and a response from accessibility@rstudio.com, this is due to limitations of the underlying <a href="https://mastodon.indie.host/tags/QtWebEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QtWebEngine</span></a>, and will therefore not improve until they move to <a href="https://mastodon.indie.host/tags/Electron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Electron</span></a>.</p><p>If you want to track this, or even help out: <a href="https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/milestone/19" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/rstudio/rstudio/mil</span><span class="invisible">estone/19</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://gup.pe/u/rstats" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rstats</span></a></span></p>