Re: [orca-list] Accessibility is now an official KDE Goal for the next 3 years

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

This is actually even a bigger step forward than you might think. Over 
the years, I've had many debates with both developers and accessibility 
advocates with respect to the ethics of accessibility. Is a developer 
ethically obligated to consider accessibility in his code? It depends. 
The lines are fuzzy. But this is the KDE development community coming 
down solidly on the side of accessibility. If a developer says that he 
has no obligation to consider accessibility, we can say the KDE 
community officially says otherwise.

No doubt, some developers are still going to say that if you don't like 
their code, you can just write your own. But now we can say okay fine 
but you are violating KDE coding standards.


On 10/5/22 10:59, Linux A11y wrote:
> Howdy List,
>
> I‘m very happy to announce that the KDE community (including me  😎👍) vote for  Accessibility as one of its
>   main goals. The goal remains active for three years. This is big and will make KDE to an accessibility 
> first Desktop Environment.
>
> The first batch of accessibility features and fixes could be tested in upcoming plasma 5.26 release on okt  
> 11th.
>
> Cheers chrys
>
>
>
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