What happened with Firefox 25?

[Burt Henry]

So, Does anyone really think that if Ubuntu accessibility was say as
good as anything out there now in all areas where it's now behind that
there’s be enough blind people willing to spend any money to help defray
the cost of accessibility work?
Hell no! Blind people are probably a tighter lot than others in their
economic position, but maybe that's subjective BS.
At any rate, if Ubuntu doesn't improve and distinguish itself from other
distros they won't even have the resources they now have for
accessibility or anything else.
Tell your local vocrehab agency, national government, or favorite blind
charity to donate some money to Linux accessibility work, anywhere,
orca, Canonical, Debian, how bout just a few months of  a good
accessibility ware coder's time to get xfce fully working with Orca???
Be real.
Maybe someone can talk the Gates foundation in to donating a few million
to Linux accessibility?
Google clearly has the money to do much more re accessibility than they
ever have, nd could apply pressure as well as possitive influances on
those who twek android for their devices and droid ap devs so tht
there's a more or less consistent accessible experience for all.
Relly, all we need is one fairly rich visionary to put up say ten
million dollars, nothing in the overall scheme of things, towards Linux
accessibility and we would see miracles, but even with tht until
accessibility is baked in to softwre from the get go we'll hve problms.
Education must also change so that anyone going through a formal
programing course will have accessible interfaces stressed from day one.

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B.H.



On 13-10-30 04:00 PM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> Well, I see that Ubuntu wishes to be on tabs or phones or all other such
> machines, but I don't clearly see that the vission has accessibility
> that seriously.
> These days I hear that android is quite improved on accessibility and
> has done so pritty quickly.
> This is what it means by being serious about accessibility.
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
> On 10/31/2013 01:21 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>> 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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