Re: a website with audio described movies.
@Zakc93: I'm afraid your argument is busted. It would only work if mainstream developers weren't the target of many an attack from a community that occasionally alternates between ass-kissing and straight-up vilifying when it comes to a new dev on the block. Examples:
the recent situation with Galactic Colonies and Ian's post
@14 "The solution to the problem is for some devs to provide a sort of accessibility framework to be easier for devs to produce." Already exists. Made by the person who made the post.
@57 "I’m quite scared that this game will not be made accessible" You should be way more scared than that.
So to be absolutely clear here, this is not an issue about an individual game. Michelle, the developer who posted that blog post, is also responsible for the unity accessibility plugin. When she talks about the company being anti accessibility the implications go way way beyond a single game.
There was a tweet the other day about her being on an internal hackathon team buildijg a prototype of native in-engine Unity screenreader support. It is no exaggeration at all to say that things are at a turning point at the moment and I'd you lose Michelle then the blind accessibility effort will be set back by years.
It's precisely this kind of "fuck developers" attitude that made me stop sending developers to this forum.
To be blunt accessibility is not going to happen by itself. Outside of CVAA it's still a very tough sell, it's not like other industries where there is a legal imperative so you're reliant entirely on goodwill and winning hearts and minds. If you want it to happen you need to make it happen, and making it happen means encouraging success, not hating on your biggest allies for them not quite managing to drive change at the speed that you like.
Standing by is not an option, if you want mainstream accessibility to become a reality you need to stop the people in the community who are sabotaging it, and throw every ounce of support behind your allies who are fighting to change things for the better. Like Michelle.
and this topic slamming code7
And the Goldgun fallout which needs no explanation as that wasn't that long ago, so we all know how that went down. The point is that developers are overly hero-worshipped if they have something out that's accessible, but mention the fact that people will have to wait a bit and the instant-grat folks are jumping down their throat, as if they are developers who know all the ins and outs of reinventing a ui to be accessible. If you are not an apologist for this kind of behavior (I am not implying you are), you will see why your argument is busted after reading these threads. The fact that Ian is turning developers away from this forum has never made him part of the problem. The blame falls on the shoulders of many in this community who have tarnished its reputation. First impressions are a powerful thing, and developers who see a bunch of entitled blinks who go at each other's throats, pirate/fork code, and be complete jerks to developers who are actually trying to become accessible are not going to want to have anything to do with this community, cva or otherwise. There's no point in sugarcoating it anymore.
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