Preferred communication channel for accessibility for blind readers?

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

@gasche

Discourse has an accessibility page that recommends writing to an email address, accessibility@discourse.org. Is this our best bet?

Yep! that’s why the email address exists — everyone on our team can access it.

@gasche

I understand that they would like to ensure that this minimal workflow is as easy as reasonably possible. (Actually, I wonder if it would be possible to provide a dedicated accessibility-oriented registration page/form. But this may not be necessary.)

Linking someone directly to the signup, for example meta.discourse.org/signup may help… any suggestions for improving the current account creation form would be welcome (what would a dedicated accessibility oriented signup form change ideally?)

@gasche

Is it possible to create a new topic from the mailing-list mode? I cannot find any information online about this, and this would be important for blind users if they want to rely on the mailing-list mode.

Yes it’s possible, but must be configured per-category or per-group, there’s a guide here:

Configure incoming email to create new topics or group messages

If you have already set up reply via email, or you are on a hosting plan that pre-configures your incoming email, you’re now ready to set up Starting a New Topic via Email. Site Settings The incoming emails feature is globally controlled by these 3 site settings: email_in: this is the only setting that must be enabled for incoming emails to work. email in allowed groups: a user must belong to this group in order to send an email to Discourse. enable_staged_users: create staged users for u…