UI automation is necessary for accessibility [LWN.net]

UI automation is necessary for accessibility

Posted Jul 14, 2026 6:32 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: UI automation is necessary for accessibility by marcH
Parent article: An update on the scraper situation

It's genius because it's as simple as saying the opposite of the truth - and it works!

My mobile phone plan started out years ago with a fairly-low-but-acceptable monthly data cap but the limit has by now ascended into such stratospheric heights that, as far as I'm concerned, it might as well not exist at all. There are probably people who manage to bump up against it but I'm not one of them. I have no problem with “unlimited” really meaning “unlimited (within reason)” if it prevents bandwidth hogs making things worse for everyone else.

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UI automation is necessary for accessibility

Posted Jul 14, 2026 12:39 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

That is fair: the truth is often "practically unlimited unless you pre-download more TV series than you have time to watch". But my main point stands: the "unlimited" is what adresses the micro-payment anxiety. I think that anxiety is strong because humans are so bad with numbers.

UI automation is necessary for accessibility

Posted Jul 16, 2026 4:35 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Back when it was the home Internet service doing data caps, I really wanted ads to have to specify "time to cap exhaustion at advertised maximum speed" as well. That "400 Mbps" isn't very useful if you slam into the data cap on day 3. As I did when visiting my parents while they were trialing some 4G home internet box (they went back to cable Internet service after that).