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“Buh, Aral, #Fedora is a volunteer project… you a nasty bum-bum criticising us for shipping an operating system without a functional screen reader by default for EIGHT YEARS…”
Meanwhile, in reality: “The Fedora Project is not a separate legal entity or organization; Red Hat retains liability for its actions.”
Who owns Red Hat?
#IBM.
What is IBM? A 150 billion-dollar corporation.
Cut the “we’re volunteers” bullshit, acknowledge your ableist culture, and do better.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Project#Governance
You really need to stop your crusade.
Yes, Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat. It doesn't change the fact that it is a volunteer-driven project.
Now the whole point of doing Fedora Accessibility effort is to gather issues, collect, categorize them and provide it as a structured feedback to upstream projects like Wayland to help them prioritize and justify work on certain areas.
Your rant attacks the very people who are trying to move the accessibility forward.
@bookwar How about I stop my “crusade” (what a horrible comparison… a “crusade”, seriously?) when Fedora ships an operating system that comes with a functional screen reader by default after EIGHT YEARS of not doing so?
There is no magic wand which would make everything better if someone says something in capslock on social networks. Neither in volunteer projects nor in billion-dollar companies.
Fixing issues requires work. Work on code, work on tests, work on describing issues, work on convincing people that the issues are important, work on figuring out dependencies between underlying problems, work on building roadmaps to fix these problems..
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Fedora starts Accessibility project not to put an accessibility label on the site and declare that the work is done, but to call for people to join the effort and consider contributing to it.
You may choose to support this call, you may choose to ignore it.
But what are you trying to achieve by attacking it?
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@bookwar https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112647473375947331
Please do not attempt to twist this into me attacking an accessibility initiative at Fedora.
It’s disingenuous when calling out a glaring eight-year long fundamental accessibility failure – if that’s not a symptom of insitutionalised ableism, I don’t know what is – is the reason *I’m* being attacked.
I’m also done with this conversation. I’m not the one who needs to be told what to do here and I don’t appreciate the tone policing.