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Accessibility Isn't Overrated

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 19, 2025,
updated Aug 19, 2025

Wheelchair Isolated on White Background

Accessibility is a subject mentioned earlier in relation to courts. In terms of accessibility, this site and its Gemini Protocol capsule are both relatively good, and moreover - in my past jobs - I had to work a lot on improving accessibility in government sites (such as GLA and FSA). In the case of government sites, there are strict requirements as they're not businesses that can just turn away citizens with special needs.

Wayland People (Red Hat and IBM, GNOME and so on) don't seem to mind accessibility; they love the word, but they're not true to their word. They use that almost like a marketing buzzword.

Making things simpler typically means better accessibility. Contrariwise, adding complexity and bloat tends to result in worse accessibility.

Leaving people out of technical things (or excluding them) is discriminatory, exclusionary, and probably offensive to those directly impacted. Funnily enough, many of those who espouse and promote "DEI" and diversity ideology in general tend to promote some of the least accessible things. Rust People - like Wayland People - constantly do this. Accessibility and disability are connected concepts; many of us will become partially disabled at one point in our lifetime, so why pretend that it's just some 'niche' or 'minority' thing? If not short-sighted, it's certainly self-harming (to one's older self).

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