I don't post often on HN, but today couldn't resist. Just tested Utox on Windows as well as Toxy, also on Windows. Both programs are totally inaccessible for people using a screenreader and I'm quite sure as well for people using things like speech recognition.

Utox seems to be C++ and a GUI framework I didn't look into. Toxy is .NET+WPF... two different stacks, but two inaccessible programs. I'm quite sure the developers didn't write inaccessible software deliberately, but this makes me wonder if we need either:

1. Inform developers better about accessibility 2. Fix tooling: warn/error if you don't label your elements etc 3. All of the above...

To give this post some more context, earlier this week I looked at Stellar... their web client is inaccessible. Earlier this week Wunderlist released a version 3... iOS app is nearly inaccessible. Earlier this week I finally wanted to give Foursquare's new Swarm app a shot... inaccessible. Do you see the pattern? I'm sorry for ranting about this, but imagine some random app update did stop the app from working and only displayed a black screen, you would be annoyed at least.