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

submitted 1 month ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] kepix@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"code it yourself" if i could, noone would ever had to open a console or a terminal or cmd ever again. even the poweruser windows experience is a nightmare, i cant imagine how shit linux can be for someone with a disability. big respect to the writer.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

The one I like is "Document it yourself."

Hey, this application exposes a Python API to the user, where's the API reference? How do I learn how to use it?

We didn't write it.

Well...could you?

If you want it to exist, you write it.

How am I supposed to do that?

Examine the app's source code.

[–] minoscopede@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just fyi, console can be more usable than gui for many disabled people. Text-to-Speech software relies on there being text, and mouses require fine motor movements.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Console experience is better for all kinds of disabilities. Text is the best instrument to convey info we have. For most of the accessibility issues the best thing you can do is to present text on a screen, and expect text as input.