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Discussion on: Why we should default to Tabs instead of Spaces for an 'accessible first' environment

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Alvaro Montoro • Edited

I'm all for Accessibility and think it should go first, but this is not a matter of Accessibility being an extra/add-on or not. Most likely the tools that are being used already have these accessible features out of the box and can be set as the default (VSCode even detects when a screen reader is running and suggest changes to improve the experience on the fly!)

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Alexander Sandberg

Didn't know VS Code had those features. That's really cool!

Yes, most likely, but not guaranteed. 🙂 Not everyone is using VS Code, Atom, or any of the other tools that have these kinds of features, but if we default to using tabs, it doesn't matter.

I guess the point I was trying to make is that, in an ideal world, everything should be designed for everyone. People with disabilities should not have to rely on certain tools or features.

Even though that's practically impossible, we should still aim for it, and make the default environment as accessible as possible.