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by ctoth 172 days ago
Ah! So it's my responsibility to teach you how to program properly! I must now police every possible new tutorial, framework, library release, and if the author didn't include accessibility I should ... Make my complete alternative version of that thing! With Accessibility included! This is ... super Scalable!

Or, you know, if you say "This is how you make a UI library" maybe you could think about ... what a USER INTERFACE actually is? Because blind people are users? and we need to interface?
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mikecsh 172 days ago
Do you not see the irony? If it's not your responsibility, why should it be the responsibility of the author of this tutorial?

People write tutorials on what they are interested in, what they have knowledge of, and what they want to share.

Accessibility is an important topic, to be sure, and is clearly of particularly high importance to you. Others might complain that they didn't include how to create a high performance table view, or embed an OpenGL view. I think most people, however, will take it as what it is - a well written, helpful contribution.

Your comment specifically asked if you were being harsh, and the consensus appears to be "yes". Perhaps if you worded things differently you might get a different response.

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lelandfe 172 days ago
> is clearly of particularly high importance to you

Tactless.

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aninteger 172 days ago
You could submit your PR to Nakst's Luigi toolkit: https://github.com/nakst/luigi

You don't have to make a complete alternative. You can add calls to ATK (accessibility toolkit) on Linux/Unix platforms. I'm not sure what needs to be done on Win32 platforms though.

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