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> It’s also not even clear that the UI they described was that bad for blind people.

Obviously it's bad. Becoming blind doesn't magically make you infinitely patient. Having to listen to a whole listing of airplane seats one by one with unnecessary details when you just want to book a place would probably make you crazy. Well it's the same for your blind users.

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They shouldn’t need to listen to every seat. Voiceover doesn’t have to read everything - just what you touch.

So how does a blind user distinguish between each seat's offerings, then? How might they quickly skim those offerings to get a decent idea of what their options are in a way even remotely similar to the speed and efficacy of, say, icons?

> How might they quickly skim those offerings to get a decent idea of what their options are in a way even remotely similar to the speed and efficacy of, say, icons?

They don’t. Why would you expect them to be able to?

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