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

submitted 3 weeks 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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[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not what I'm saying, not at all, it's sad you read it this way.
I'm saying that GNOME sucks balls right now, and the nobody can't just say "but the developers are working really hard", or "a bunch of people actually use it" and make it all suddenly go away. I'm not going to repeat all the specific points on why exactly it sucks, it's not what the discussion is about, it's not what my comment is about, and it's not the what only available criticism is.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

nobody can't just say "but the developers are working really hard", or "a bunch of people actually use it" and make it all suddenly go away

That's not what anyone's saying either. AHemlocksLie said the article—instead of saying "we know better what the users want"—expresses frustration at caring and working a ton at (blind) accessibility only for people to say GNOME devs don't care about (blind) accessibility; nowhere did they say that makes GNOME accessibility good. In the context of us understanding what AHemlocksLie said, I think it's not aberating that we interpreted your reply the way we did.

squaresinger said what you think you said in their last reply. Look at the positive response to them.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

expresses frustration at caring and working a ton at (blind) accessibility only for people to say GNOME devs don’t care about (blind) accessibility

And my point is, you only get recognition if you succeed. You do get mangled star with "you tried" misspelled on it if you didn't, of course, but also you get harsh comments like mine.