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That's an important point but lack of screen-readers (or whatever) support is forgivable at the early stages of a project that gives something conceptually inte
by qwerty456127 8y ago
That's an important point but lack of screen-readers (or whatever) support is forgivable at the early stages of a project that gives something conceptually interesting in exchange. I just hope they won't forget about it later when it gets clear that the project stabilizes and its future becomes clear.
- thisrod 8y agoSmalltalk has been around since the 1970s, though. Given the things the community is interested in, schools, video, sound, and so on, it's odd that accessibility never came up.
- User23 8y agoMost sighted persons really don't like thinking about blindness. It's not because they are bad people, it's just deeply scary and relatively uncommon. This is an area where Apple really doesn't get enough credit. VoiceOver has absolutely revolutionized blind persons' ability to interact with consumer tech. For more technically demanding applications, the Unix philosophy is inherently open to being made accessible. https://pjb.com.au/blin/ https://pjb.com.au/blin/. As an aside, I personally really enjoy accessible websites, because they focus on clear communication in the presence of a serious obstacle, rather than assaulting the visual cortex with attention grabbing nonsense. Edit: Also one could argue that ed(1)¹ is the pinnacle of accessibility. ¹https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
- mwcampbell 8y agoHere's a blind programmer who actually did argue, in all seriousness, that ed is the pinnacle of accessibility: http://eklhad.net/philosophy.html http://eklhad.net/philosophy.html
- User23 8y agoGreat read. Thanks!
- qwerty456127 8y agoIsn't it fascinating how posting a seemingly-useless comment that is guaranteed to be down-voted can provoke people to post interesting things in response? :-)