<![CDATA[If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right.]]>If any of my people have weight here, make sure they require support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. These corporations software are more disability friendly France ditches Microsoft for Linux to achieve digital sovereignty – and it's not the only one! | Tuta https://tuta.com/blog/countries-ditching-microsoft-choosing-linux-digital-sovereignty

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/b1c1c316-4707-480b-886c-0cd74a43f62f/if-any-of-my-france-accessibility-people-have-weight-here-make-sure-they-require-disability-support-because-to-a-lot-of-the-open-source-community-disability-access-is-a-feature-not-a-right.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 01:58:07 GMTFri, 24 Apr 2026 12:26:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Sun, 03 May 2026 16:11:27 GMT]]>@WeirdWriter Regulation applies to everyone. i.e. Government suppliers have to comply if they want to get the contract. This will not be different for the Open Source software that will replace the closed source ones.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/alexleduc/statuses/116511518706289970https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/alexleduc/statuses/116511518706289970Sun, 03 May 2026 16:11:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:03:56 GMT]]>Oh yeah! I had to learn the hard way that regulation is the only way people will make their shit accessible unless they are directly impacted by disability. @kawazoe @menelion

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116460764270292032https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116460764270292032Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:03:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:01:05 GMT]]>But also, like, this response is proof that open source isn't regulated, so if people want accessibility and accessible devices, then they will get more out of regulating corporations, looks like. @alexleduc

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116460753071665087https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116460753071665087Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:01:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:47:10 GMT]]>@menelion@dragonscave.space @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social I worked for a consulting firm on enterprise software in the past. The kind of software that's used by large sales departments. I did the best of my leadership role to push the dev team to care about accessibility, but in the end, clients never cared about it so it was always a best effort thing, and only for those that knew how to do things correctly. Clients openly told us that their branding, in internal softwares, was more important than accessibility, to a point where one client told me personally that they dont give a fuck about disabled people because they just won't hire them. That hurt.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transfem.social/notes/algpjivc04ma0e2ihttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transfem.social/notes/algpjivc04ma0e2iFri, 24 Apr 2026 16:47:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:39:58 GMT]]>@WeirdWriter These news I keep seeing make me smile ❤

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116048291291524662/statuses/116460434096845797https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116048291291524662/statuses/116460434096845797Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:39:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:44:24 GMT]]>@alexleduc That’s exactly the point I was making. You should ask yourself why it takes regulation to care about accessibility

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116460215625608402https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116460215625608402Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:44:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:07:38 GMT]]>@WeirdWriter Open source developers willing to work on such things don't grow on tree. Corporations have a lot of money to make their software accessible, and do so not out of the goodness of their heart, but to comply with regulation. Hopefully France moving to Linux will mean there will be investment in developing and upstreaming accessibility features, so that Linux complies with whatever accessibility regulation there is in Europe.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/alexleduc/statuses/116459835130402779https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/alexleduc/statuses/116459835130402779Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:07:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:55:20 GMT]]>@keydelk I’m hoping for https://gts.phillipsuk.org/@jetlagjen/statuses/01KPZRCCRWV08KNM1DK7C6CDZV

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116459786794956059https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116459786794956059Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:55:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:52:07 GMT]]>@jetlagjen This is my hope also. Sure, a lot of corporations only do the bare minimum when it comes to disability design, but I will gladly take the bare minimum over having 0 access at all

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116459774125070618https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116459774125070618Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:52:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:47:56 GMT]]>@WeirdWriter I hope the increased usage of Linux in the EU leads to more development of Accessibility tools for the platform.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/keydelk/statuses/116459757645104544https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/keydelk/statuses/116459757645104544Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:47:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:45:36 GMT]]>@WeirdWriter I sincerely hope that something as big as a country's civil service can demand it and then it becomes standard.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.phillipsuk.org/users/jetlagjen/statuses/01KPZRCCRWV08KNM1DK7C6CDZVhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.phillipsuk.org/users/jetlagjen/statuses/01KPZRCCRWV08KNM1DK7C6CDZVFri, 24 Apr 2026 12:45:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:44:11 GMT]]>@WeirdWriter In my case, I'm talking about https://github.com/cloud-gouv/securix

I'm sorry I do not have a clean link that talks about the disabilities support efforts, I hope I can share more about this as part of a roadmap of the project in the future

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nixos.paris/users/raito/statuses/116459742918798475https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nixos.paris/users/raito/statuses/116459742918798475Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:44:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:40:14 GMT]]>@raito I haven’t looked at your profile yet, but what solution mentioned in the article as yours? And can you send me a link that talks about your disabilities support efforts?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116459727399388129https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://caneandable.social/users/WeirdWriter/statuses/116459727399388129Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:40:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:35:52 GMT]]>@WeirdWriter I'm one of the author of the solutions mentioned in the article implicitly and we will definitely do our best, while working with the giants we depend upon — KDE, etc.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nixos.paris/users/raito/statuses/116459710241806947https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nixos.paris/users/raito/statuses/116459710241806947Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:35:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:29:45 GMT]]>@WeirdWriter Exactly. I'm in France, and I'm deeply worried. With this anti-GAFAM hysteria in Europe, nobody cares about , as if 15% of population didn't exist.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dragonscave.space/users/menelion/statuses/116459686184430358https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dragonscave.space/users/menelion/statuses/116459686184430358Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:29:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:29:05 GMT]]>@WeirdWriter agreed, but maybe this and any other state in Europe could set up a money pot to pay a few/bunch of devs to add the missing pieces.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/users/mdione/statuses/116459683574432486https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/users/mdione/statuses/116459683574432486Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:29:05 GMT