Here it is...Ubuntu Phone

[Nolan Darilek]

I would like to organize some sort of advocacy effort to get Canonical 
to take accessibility more seriously. I understand the limitations of 
the current accessibility team, but if we look back at the state of 
computing two years ago vs. today, any reasonable person would agree 
that telling a certain subset of the population that they can only be 
assured accessible software on that schedule while others get upgrades 
every six months is unreasonable. I don't want Ubuntu to be another 
Android, an accessibility situation with which I am quite familiar.

I tried posting a comment here:

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1221/comment-page-1#comment-400356

because a post that claims that Canonical doesn't want to leave users 
behind in 2013 seems at odds with a company whose next release I will 
have guaranteed access to won't be out until 2014. Unfortunately, my 
comment got caught up in Akismet and appears to have vanished. Perhaps 
others who feel the same should ask Mark not to leave accessibility 
behind while Canonical charges ahead in so many other areas.

Ubuntu Phone uses QML 5. I get that QT isn't as accessible, but it's 
being adopted by a bunch of companies in the mobile space, so you'd 
think that they'd have all contributed toward making it accessible. 
Perhaps it's time for Canonical to set a good example in this space and 
contribute more toward accessibility than it currently does.

I'm going to start actively commenting on Canonical and other blogs, 
advocating for the expansion of the accessibility team. Thoughts on what 
else we can do? I'd love to do this stuff myself, but I'm already 
writing an Android screen reader and working on Android accessibility 
projects, and end users can't always be called upon to take up the slack 
that paying companies leave behind.