Inaccessibility of sticky toolbars

[Zalathar]

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Over the last several years, GitHub has been adding more and more sucky toolbars to its pages, seemingly unaware of the accessibility problems that they cause.

Most recently, the overhaul of the code view has added a mandatory sticky toolbar that remains at the top of the browser view even when scrolling.

Of course, this makes it very difficult for me to read the code on the page. I read a lot of code on GitHub, but since this update I’ve been unable to get any work done, because the sticky toolbar prevents me from being able to read the code on the page.

Is this something that GitHub’s accessibility people are even aware of? Frontend changes have been steadily making the site less and less accessible, and this isn’t consistent with GitHub’s claim that it cares about accessibility.

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