> Also the arguments regarding colorblind crowd being unable to distinguish colors are weak
Especially since accessibility in terminal environments simply isn't a thing. The terminal is a grid of cells that contain individual characters. Screen readers and other accessibility tools cannot know whether those characters constitute runs of text or separators, they cannot know which texts belong together, what their semantic relation is, etc. etc.
If accessibility is something you care about, don't write TUI programs. The two concepts are irreconcilable. Proper accessibility requires semantic labeling of visual output, and the terminal display protocol doesn't provide that capability. Hand-wringing about a specific aspect like color blindness only serves to avoid discussing the elephant in the room, which is that TUI programs are fundamentally not accessible.
Especially since accessibility in terminal environments simply isn't a thing. The terminal is a grid of cells that contain individual characters. Screen readers and other accessibility tools cannot know whether those characters constitute runs of text or separators, they cannot know which texts belong together, what their semantic relation is, etc. etc.
If accessibility is something you care about, don't write TUI programs. The two concepts are irreconcilable. Proper accessibility requires semantic labeling of visual output, and the terminal display protocol doesn't provide that capability. Hand-wringing about a specific aspect like color blindness only serves to avoid discussing the elephant in the room, which is that TUI programs are fundamentally not accessible.