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Request for Volv/Indie Hackers: Make the site more accessible!

I appreciate the short news clips shared from Volv in the Indie Hackers newsletter, but the site is very, very inaccessible.

I tried running a screen reader on the site and it was just completely silent, because the whole thing is rendered into a canvas element. The buttons don't have any hover or click states, so I can't tell if I copied a link. Plus, I can't even highlight the text on a headline when I want to quickly describe the link I'm sharing from the site.

It's a really cool concept, but it's an incredibly inaccessible experience as it is. Several folks who I want to share the site with rely on assistive technologies to navigate the web, and the only "real" interactive element on the page is the input where you can put your phone number (try hitting "tab" a few times on the page and you'll see what I mean).

Please either fix this, Volv, or address this, Indie Hackers!

on May 17, 2022