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Then the dozens of desktop environments, each doing things differently, split between X11 and Wayland.
I feel like blind devs should get together and make a distro that, out of the box, has as many accessibility features as possible, because it seems a lost cause to wait for some other distro to pick the right combination of tools.
The truth is, big tech corporations could probably skimp on accessibility as well, but they want their government contracts very much, and software used in governments, as far as at least the proverbial first world is concerned, has an accessibility bar it must meet. And it just so happens that these corporations have large chunks of money to invest in that. If requirements for being in such lucrative markets loosen…
It’s probably the nicest thing about the company, and it stands out even more in the last ten or twenty years as the company becomes more and more scummy and despicable. It’s deep down and was established back when it was run by humans with deep empathy.
This is just two people misunderstanding and talking past eachother. The blogger wants to outsource living his life to other people, the commenter is getting hung up on pedantry too much to communicate what he actually wants to.
This argument ports really well onto a lot of other things tech demographics touch if you just change the subject specific nouns.
Like: "The linux kernel should embrace future demographics." And the GNU/linuxers respond: "Then go FOSS yourself and fork it."
It already is allowing Rust...
As far as the commenter, the GNU bit is still relevant. But you should normally call the distribution its name. SteamOS is not quite as much GNU as Debian.
The truth is, big tech corporations could probably skimp on accessibility as well, but they want their government contracts very much, and software used in governments, as far as at least the proverbial first world is concerned, has an accessibility bar it must meet. And it just so happens that these corporations have large chunks of money to invest in that. If requirements for being in such lucrative markets loosen…
Nah. Apple’s commitment to pervasive accessibility features has been around for so long and has had so much investment into it it is clear it is in their DNA. It’s probably the nicest thing about the company, and it stands out even more in the last ten or twenty years as the company becomes more and more scummy and despicable. It’s deep down and was established back when it was run by humans with deep empathy.
So much accessibility that:
You need to use gestures to access critical functions.
Half of screen readers cannot be connected to their hardware.
You cannot easily get someone to write a driver for exotic input hardware.
There's no zoom feature in the OS.
Recently many UIs just break with big scale factors.
Keyboard support is lacking altogether in some bits of the UI.
Information is hidden and alpears at random.
Not to say Windows or Linux is free of it or better. The platforms are bad in different ways.
Linux is just a base that people stack other software on top of. Audio crash? Pulse or Pipe wire? Then the dozens of desktop environments, each doing things differently, split between X11 and Wayland. I feel like blind devs should get together and make a distro that, out of the box, has as many accessibility features as possible, because it seems a lost cause to wait for some other distro to pick the right combinatio…
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Like: "The linux kernel should embrace future demographics." And the GNU/linuxers respond: "Then go FOSS yourself and fork it."
Like what demographics? People who want to take the kernel, fork it and close it? Perople making low quality patch bombs behind closed doors? It already is allowing Rust... As far as the commenter, the GNU bit is still relevant. But you should normally call the distribution its name. SteamOS is not quite as much GNU as Debian.
The demographics of programming languages choosen/picked up by new generations of foss developers.
With GNU/linuxer i meant the stereotypical stubborn people resisting change not a specific distro.
I guess there will be non-technical frictions between rust and C in the linux project for as long as the GNU/linuxers exist. And like the OP, it can be seen as a matter of accessibility.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like what demographics? People who want to take the kernel, fork it and close it? Perople making low quality patch bombs behind closed doors? It already is allowing Rust... As far as the commenter, the GNU bit is still relevant. But you should normally call the distribution its name. SteamOS is not quite as much GNU as Debian.
> Like what demographics The demographics of programming languages choosen/picked up by new generations of foss developers. With GNU/linuxer i meant the stereotypical stubborn people resisting change not a specific distro. I guess there will be non-technical frictions between rust and C in the linux project for as long as the GNU/linuxers exist. And like the OP, it can be seen as a matter of accessibility.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah. Apple’s commitment to pervasive accessibility features has been around for so long and has had so much investment into it it is clear it is in their DNA. It’s probably the nicest thing about the company, and it stands out even more in the last ten or twenty years as the company becomes more and more scummy and despicable. It’s deep down and was established back when it was run by humans with deep empathy.
Yeah, right. Do not confuse accessibility with simplicity. So much accessibility that: You need to use gestures to access critical functions. Half of screen readers cannot be connected to their hardware. You cannot easily get someone to write a driver for exotic input hardware. There's no zoom feature in the OS. Recently many UIs just break with big scale factors. Keyboard support is lacking altogether in some bits o…
macOS absolutely has a zoom feature. I use it regularly, it's bound to ctrl + mouse scroll for me.
More: https://support.apple.com/en-il/guide/mac-help/mchl779716b8/...