Re: [orca-list] Let's celebrate! Red hat has hired a blind person to improve accessibility!

[Kyle <kyle free2 ml>]

Quoting from the article:

"For now, my focus is to go through the applications which were ported 
to GTK 4 as a part of the GNOME development cycle and ensure that they 
work well. It includes adding a lot of missing labels, but in some 
cases, it will involve bigger changes, for example, GNOME Calendar seems 
to need much more work. During all that, educating developers should not 
be forgotten either."


Actually, making things work more like HTML in a web browser is probably 
a better option. Notice how accessible HTML is right out of the box, and 
it takes breaking things to break things. For example, I had to do very 
little to make my website work. It took more effort to make it look good 
than to make a screen reader read it well. I wish the same for any OS, 
but many seem to make accessibility rather esoteric, or even occult for 
many developers instead of making it the default behavior. Developers 
should not be required to learn tons of extra stuff just to make their 
applications work with screen readers, and accessibility should be core 
default functionality, not a bolt-on or an afterthought that requires 
much training and testing in order to get right from an application 
developer's standpoint. Yeah, maybe this is perfect world stuff, but we 
do have the ability, since everything in Linux is open source, to solve 
this problem once and for all from the ground up.

~Kyle