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   Talon (talon@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 14:20:19 JST Talon

   Seen a few posts talking about VS Code's bad sides again recently so I just wanted to share this thought and experience I had.
   VS Code is accessible. And it tries hard to remain accessible. But sometimes things slip through the cracks. There was an issue with auto correct which specifically happens on Mac with VoiceOver. Working with VoiceOver on the web is anything but pleasant especially from a developer point of view. But you know what happened?
   The issue was reported, and it was fixed. There was no discussion about how this is really VoiceOver's fault because it didn't happen anywhere else. Someone said yup, this is not OK, and now it works again.
   And at least from my experience, this is, at least at the time, the norm with VS Code and accessibility. I have a problem, I either open an issue or find one that exists and give it a comment or thumbs up, and eventually the issue is resolved. Maybe other people have had different experiences than I have, but in my case, there were never many big arguments, endless comment chains that could never figure out what to do and how to do it. There was an accessibility issue, someone said yup this is indeed an issue, and it was fixed. It was quite refreshing, really.
   I imagine not many people use this thing on Mac with VoiceOver but even so.
   I like that. I like VS Code. More software should be like VS Code when it comes to accessibility, I think.

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     Talon (talon@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 14:22:33 JST Talon

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     • aaron

     @fireborn Oh gods Teams... don't even...

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     aaron (fireborn@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 14:22:34 JST aaron

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     @talon that others should absolutely learn from, even other Microsoft teams (teams) internally

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     aaron (fireborn@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 14:22:35 JST aaron

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     @talon this is true. It is basically the gold standard for web app accessibility, though.

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     Talon (talon@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 14:22:36 JST Talon

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     • aaron

     @fireborn But it's not a text editor. If you want merely a text editor, you wouldn't use VS Code.

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     aaron (fireborn@dragonscave.space)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 14:22:37 JST aaron

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     @talon More software should be like VS Code when it comes to accessibility, yes. I'm just personally not really a fan of my editor doing a hundred other things; it's a text editor. I edit text in it.