I am a blind user of your website, and I generally love the website so far, but unfortunately, the Markdown editor poses some challenges for me.

When I am navigating the website and if I land in one of these multiline edit boxes, I get trapped there and it prevents me from navigating out of it unless I refresh the page.

Another problematic thing is when I want to post a comment or edit something on my profile, I am unable to do so.

My screen reader, NVDA, does not register any typed characters in these Markdown multiline edit fields. I must copy and paste to and from external text editors and this is not always practical.

Thank you for your time! Happy to answer questions!

Hello WeirdWriter!

Sorry for the lateness of my reply. I have not had much time at all to devote to S2 lately.

I am wondering if the most pragmatic solution might be a user preference to replace the editor with a standard textarea?

Unfortunately I don't have a Windows machine for testing NVDA myself.

I am wondering if the most pragmatic solution might be a user preference to replace the editor with a standard textarea?

I love this idea, actually! As long as the regilar editor also uses Markdown as well. I love the MD aspect of all the editing, just the editor itself has some problems.

Hello again WeirdWriter!

This wasn't too difficult to implement, you should see a new toggle on your profile called "Use the simple editor".

If you switch that you should find the "fancy" editor is replaced by a standard textarea.

Let me know how it goes!