What do virtue-signalers and privileged people without disabilities sharing content about accessibility on Linux being trash have in common? They don’t actually really care about the group they’re defending; they just exploit these victims’ unfortunate situation to fuel hate against groups and projects actually trying to make the world a better place. 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 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.

  • ServerForget@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 hours ago

    It’s crazy that Elementary is the only OS that seems to care about these things, but that’s what you get when you’re the only distribution to focus on design at all.

  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    16 hours ago

    “code it yourself” if i could, noone would ever had to open a console or a terminal or cmd ever again. even the poweruser windows experience is a nightmare, i cant imagine how shit linux can be for someone with a disability. big respect to the writer.

    • OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml
      12·
      21 hours ago

      I agree I remember reading it when it came out and it’s heartbreaking to see these things not only not progress but slowly regress. I have found a relatively stable home on silverblue but even with that things can go wrong and I cannot imagine having to debug blind. While I support the general motive for migrating to Wayland I don’t think it’s worth losing accessibility.

      I (probably erroneously) expected better from software pushed by enterprises.

  • Nora@lemmy.ml
    82·
    22 hours ago

    haha partway through the article I was like why don’t you just use NixOS and then they actually covered it.

    It looks like if NixOS spent some time working on its accessibility during setup, It could be a really good solution.

    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Does NixOs have a set of good documentation yet, or is it still “just read these 6 different articles/ebooks, but dont listen do the what the 3rd book talks about in its second half, except for chapter 7. Do chapter 7, but how guide 4 describes it. Then you should have a default config and everything will be perfect.”