The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

HotGarbage 13 points 2 comments May 03, 2026
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rhoopr

This is an interesting perspective on something I haven’t considered at all for applications I’ve built, honestly. I’m going to take it in and make changes wherever possible.

Lockal

The blog post is somewhat similar to AI MJ Rathbun ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729 ), the difference is it does not call names, instead it calls "Google and the maintainers of gemini-cli". I see that somebody has some frustration; the reality is that slop pasta does not help. One needs to explain the root cause of frustration first (personally, not via LLM rant), otherwise it will never be fixed. There is also a chance to find a solution during an explanation.

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