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> Gemini is _incredible_ for accessibility

It depends on how you use it. If you want to make ASCII tables, then a screen reader will not have an idea of how to navigate the table. However a simple HTML <table> is well understood by screen-readers. I would contend that properly structured HTML documents are far better for accessibility.



Tables are not part of Gemini markup. What it offers is accessible. What it does not offer is really beside the point.


I disagree. What it doesn't offer, people will try to do anyway, each in their own ad-hoc way. See how people used to abuse <div> before HTML5 (and still do)


What it doesn't offer makes a significant chunk of content that people actually write and read inaccessible.

For example, the lack of simple text styling makes Gemini significantly less accessible than it could've been. Because now a screenreader will say something like "Significantly asterisk less asterisk accessible" instead of "Significantly emphasis less accessible".

I don't think images can have alt-text in Gemini so that blind users could get info from there.

Etc.

Edit: someone else has a much better answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052729




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