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It’s True, “We” Don’t Care About Accessibility on Linux (tesk.page)

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I never thought I’d be this upset to a point I’d be writing an article about something this sensitive with a clickbait-y title. It’s simultaneously demotivating, unproductive, and infuriating. I’m here writing this post fully knowing that I could have been working on accessibility in GNOME, but really, I’m so tired of having my mood ruined because of privileged people spending at most 5 minutes to write erroneous posts and then pretending to be oblivious when confronted while it takes us 5 months of unpaid work to get a quarter of recognition, let alone acknowledgment, without accounting for the time “wasted” addressing these accusations.

I beg you, please keep writing banger posts like fireborn’s I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back series and their interluding post. We need more people with disabilities to keep reminding developers that you exist and your conditions and disabilities are a spectrum and not absolute.

TheEvilSkeleton is a pretty big GNOME developer whom I'm pretty sure I've bumped into before.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Damn, I went to read the linked post I Want to Love Linux, it Doesn't Love Me Back and it is, indeed, a banger.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

I agree I remember reading it when it came out and it’s heartbreaking to see these things not only not progress but slowly regress. I have found a relatively stable home on silverblue but even with that things can go wrong and I cannot imagine having to debug blind. While I support the general motive for migrating to Wayland I don’t think it’s worth losing accessibility.

I (probably erroneously) expected better from software pushed by enterprises.