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by malkia 2049 days ago
Until HR/regulations/compassion hits you, please don't comment please.

Got it though - these things are perceived as - meh, why would I need it - I have perfect vision, two hands, can speak, can hear, can touch, etc. And then you start realizing you maybe working with folks with disabilities, and the same products/apps that you are working with allow them to do so (like Visual Studio), so on one hand it's easy to ignore them (without even realizing so), but once you've become aware of what they are facing, and seen enough it makes you think - should I use this, because there is no native control, and usually native controls have ways to be decoded by Assistive tech (my reasons back in the days to prefer wxWidgets over Qt), or recently even if it's non-native (Qt, flutter, etc) it can feed to the assistive sdk (say on Windows) details of what's going on in the control.

It's rather important! It's not just a gimmick. It shows compassion, love, and someone might already a project doing so with "Dear IMGUI" (not aware of one), but probably internals can be exposed in some fashion.