[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Mario Lang]

"Jason J.G. White" <jason at jasonjgw.net> writes:

> On 1/4/25 05:46, Aura Kelloniemi wrote:
>> Does somebody know, if the funding options have been thoroughly evaluated and
>> how easy/difficult it would be to get even one developer a long-term payment
>> for working with accessibility?
> The GNOME Foundation obtained grant funding to work on a new
> accessibility architecture, which was developed as a prototype. If
> funding sources could be found, continuing that work would probably
> lead to valuable, long-term improvements.

Oh no, not again.  That would be the third time GNOME starts over.
Given what I saw while watching the D-Bus AT-SPI rewrite, followed
by the early GNOME3 fallout, I have to admit I am
not confident that GNOME actually can provide long-term stable
accessibility support.  Sure, with proper funding, everything
can be done.  However, as GNOME3 showed, shiny-new-stuff can easily
kill existing Accessibility support just because.
We'd need to obtain a substantially huge piece of funding
to "motivate" developers to keep existing Accessibility features alive.

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CYa,
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