Let me start this by saying that I know there are people and creators out there this absolutely does not apply to, I just need to vent. I understand that different #programming languages are going to have different ways they set up the #GUI but surely if the #program is already complete and the various elements like buttons, check boxes, drop downs and so forth are there it doesn't take but a few minutes to go back into where they get created on a static display and to put #labels on them so that a #screenreader can detect them properly. I really hate pulling the #blind card, but DriveThruRPG has repeatedly been told they have accessibility issues and yet they just don't seem to care. They just continue to either give the excuse of we're working on a redesign of the website (been happeneing for years now apparently and they can't spare anyone to look at anything else), or they simply just don't care. That latter being mostly involved with the watermark they put on their pdf's. It completely destroys the accessibility that the publisher works so hard on and yet they are unwilling to even consider examining it, nor do they seem inclined to inform the publisher's that it is a known issue and that it messing up #accessibility. I know a couple of publishers that I have spoken to directly that admitted they didn't know this fact and they went through a whole testing and debugging process to make their pdf fully accessible with testers. I get that something are going to require #DRM, personally I think that is an entirely different stupid rabbit hole, but if it is required and I'm going to pay money for it, then you should at least take my concerns seriously and find some sort of accomodation. Dealing with a #PDF is already kind of a pain unless they are created just right, adding in the classic layout of 2 columns that most #TTRPG like to use makes that even worse, but then #DriveThruRPG goes and adds this watermark that destroys the whole thing, on top of that a lot of publishers haven't really even bothered to make the #PDF properly accessible to begin with so you have things like bad reading order, tables that are actually images that according to the screen reader perspective are only partly in a table format, then some mishmash of text with hardly any spaces and no line breaks, and worst of all the PDF that you open and find that While there are line breaks and even paragraphs breask there don't seem to be any spaces and the creators of the document thought it would be a grand idea to use multiple different font styles of multiple different sizes in some weird ass layout that inserts things like graphics, tables, notes, and various other elements right in the middle of the text where it only makes sense to a sighted person reading the page. Okay, rant over. I just wish someone would do something, but I guess I'm just too small a demographic for the bigwigs of #TTRPG to listen to.
