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

[kk's Programming Hub <kkproghub gmail com>]

The only problem I see in this arena is that when we work in an
ecosystem with various layers and aspects to a particular code base/
project, then doing things from the ground up becomes challenging.

The reason being accessibility has only off late   got it's due
importance, but by then some development has gone way too ahead to turn
back for just this aspect.

KK

On 28/06/22 03:51, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> 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
>
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