Publish your results through “wa11y.co: Wordle Accessibility” to allow visual impaired much easier and pleasant access to your results #a11y
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/19
I wish Wordle would be more accessible, but alas after all this time it still isn’t.
Luckily there is [Wayback/Archive] wa11y.co: Wordle Accessibility
At the end of your Wordle game, click “Share” to copy your result then paste it below to generate descriptive text.
It is open source on GitHub at [Wayback/Archive] cariad/wa11y.co: Makes Wordle results accessible. (most of it is written in JavaScript)
I first bumped into it via:
- [Wayback/Archive] phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “Maybe I’m completely wrong (as I don’t use screen readers) but like I’m not seeing the same energy with the red flag trend in terms of its inaccessibility apply to Wordle. Certainly those who use screen readers are pulling their hair seeing this trend all over their feed, no?”
I replied it with example to a visually impaired person who got overwhelmed when Wordle took Twitter by storm:
- [Wayback/Archive] Katie Mixtochtli – read my pinned – use alt text on Twitter: “OK so we need to talk, Josh @powerlanguish. We need to talk about you making the next release of #wordle #accessible so as to include the #disabled. I’m tired of not being able to participate. CC #DisabilityTwitter”
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@Conundrum9999 @hbeckpdx @powerlanguish Thanks! Related: … Where @etoile posted a temporarily workaround website
wa11y.cowhere you can paste a Wordle tweet and get accessible results. @powerlanguish please make that standard.” - [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@Conundrum9999 @hbeckpdx @powerlanguish @etoile Wordle 224 5/6 …”
Wordle 224 5/6
Line 1: 4th perfect, but 5th in the wrong place.
Line 2: 1st correct but in the wrong place.
Line 3: 2nd and 4th perfect, but 3rd in the wrong place.
Line 4: 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th perfect.
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Later I also found this:
- [Wayback/Archive] Stacey Jenkins on Twitter: “I am only going to say this once, I promise, but… Posting walls of emojis is inaccessible. Screen reader users are going to hear “green square green square yellow square” without any meaning. If you’re posting your Wordle results, try screenshot + add alt text instead💕”
- [Wayback/Archive] earnestly, rachel on Twitter: “@StaceyofGotham @paperstainedink this web app will shortcut the text for you!” / Twitter
Accessibility is important. Luckily there is a global day on that which I covered before in To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 – #a11y.
–jeroen
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