On 10/30/2013 02:19 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
On 10/30/2013 11:19 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
If there were more resources, more effort could be put into supporting
interim releases. Luke
I agree. It's a shame that Canonical is so focused on replacing GNOME
with Unity, replacing Wayland with Mir, building its own cloud
deployment solution, putting Ubuntu on every device, that it only has a
single developer to spare for access, which is why I've asked for years
what meaningful action can be done about that. Even Android pushes out
accessibility improvements faster than does Ubuntu these days. But there
just doesn't seem like enough interest from Canonical--too busy
pandering to their able-bodied users I suppose--so I'm at a loss.
The issue isn't resources. It's priorities.
I agree it's a shame there aren't more resources for accessibility, and
it is obviously a case of priorities and not resources. I don't agree
though that it's a case of Canonical just pandering to their able bodied
users. Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical have a vision of an OS that
encompasses smart phones, tablets, laptops, desktops and servers. I want
to see this vision succeed, and I want to see ubuntu rival Windows,
Android and the Apple OS's. I think this will benefit all computer
users, including the blind. Last I knew, Canonical was trying to
accomplish this, and build their commercial business, with around 500
employees and has yet to make a profit.
I agree we should be clambering for more resources for accessibility and
we should be demanding that accessibility be a higher priority, but I
don't think that we should be asking Canonical to give up it's vision to
accomplish this or that we should mis characterize these efforts as just
pandering to their sighted users.
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