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.
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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. 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 #OpenSource #Linux
@WeirdWriter I hope the increased usage of Linux in the EU leads to more development of Accessibility tools for the platform.
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@WeirdWriter I sincerely hope that something as big as a country's civil service can demand it and then it becomes standard.
@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
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@WeirdWriter I hope the increased usage of Linux in the EU leads to more development of Accessibility tools for the platform.
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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. 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 #OpenSource #Linux
@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.
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@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.
@alexleduc That’s exactly the point I was making. You should ask yourself why it takes regulation to care about accessibility
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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. 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 #OpenSource #Linux
@WeirdWriter These news I keep seeing make me smile
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@WeirdWriter Exactly. I'm in France, and I'm deeply worried. With this anti-GAFAM hysteria in Europe, nobody cares about #Accessibility, as if 15% of population didn't exist. #Linux #DigitalSovereignty #SouveraintéNumérique
@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.
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@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.
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
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@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.
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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
@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.
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