@fireborn #linux won't change until people understand that testing and programming needs to be paid. Spend some buck on your favorite distro or project, ask for better management or better testing.

The characterization in this article is spot on! In my experience, Linux tends to fall short in areas that matter less in the server world. Aside from the audio stack, battery and power management is another weak link that comes to mind.

@lcruggeri It needs to be paid, yes. By companies. There are some huge companies behind Linux and various parts of the stack. I wonder how many are funding accessibility efforts? IBM, a little. Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and cut the accessibility team. The Gnome foundation does some work on it but the processes are still a work in progress.

@fireborn people need to pay also. Micro payments, but those help too

@lcruggeri I agree–I'm always in favor of people donating to their favorite projects. The issue is that a lot of people, unfortunately, just don't care about accessibility, because it's not happening to *them*. It's happening to some unfortunate minority group.

@fireborn if you mind about accessibility, I recall Elementary OS doing something in that matter. Paging @danirabbit

@lcruggeri @fireborn I’m definitely keeping an eye on this series to see what we can learn!

@danirabbit @lcruggeri Thanks for taking the time to read my rambling. I've heard from a few people that the elementary installer starts speaking when you just leave it sit and don't press anything at all. Is this the case?

@fireborn Yes! We added this feature fairly recently. After a few seconds of being on the first page of the installer it’ll announce the screen reader shortcut. And I spent some time going through the installer with my eyes closed to make sure everything was labeled and could be navigated etc. I’d love any feedback on it!

@danirabbit I'm going to daily drive it. My laptop is now wiped.

@danirabbit also, for this alone, where can I throw some money?

@fireborn I’m really looking forward to hearing how we can continue to improve our experience for blind folks 🩷

GitHub Sponsors or LiberaPay are the best ways. Thank you so much!

https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

https://liberapay.com/elementary/