What happened with Firefox 25?

[Christopher Chaltain]

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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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain at Gmail