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Since it's underlining code you wrote, it must be "found" that is highlighted, not "expected". Much like up and down, gravity exists to ground all of us in the same direction.

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I'm over here with TTS: Underlining in a terminal rarely translates to audio. It isn't the only consideration that needs to be made, when making things clear.

except nobody has to cater to every worst case scenario

So every disabled programmer is now a "worst case scenario"?

Or in short, Rust isn't for disabled programmers?

I am sure the Rust community would welcome feedback from blind developers about their error messages. Accessibility is a good thing.

One thing that could help here is that the compiler is able to offer output in JSON, allowing you to format the messages however you'd like: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/json.html

I'm not aware of an existing tool to produce blind-friendly output, but this would at least be a part of that!

I hadn’t considered this use case, thank you for pointing it out!

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