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Not actually understanding what is being said or what is going on and completely lacking perspective is not a good look.

Please read the article I referenced. Most of their gripes are also issues found in Windows. Also OP's article is clearly written from a constructive criticism point of view that I appreciate. Keeping software accessible is hard work and proprietary software is not some magic bullet.

I think you are taking this all out of context hence why I told you to get off your high horse. Apparently you decided to climb onto an even higher horse instead. You are not echoing anything but your rather alarmist perspective. See below for excerpts about Windows accessability.

"A concrete example of a product that simply cannot be used by the blind, but which is an integral security component used in employment situations, is Microsoft's BitLocker software, which provides full disk encryption. BitLocker requires the user to enter a PIN (personal identification number) before the full Windows operating system is started. While competing full-disk encryption programs have offered the ability to generate an audible tone that can be used to alert the blind user that information needs to be entered, BitLocker offers no such indication. Despite years of repeated entreaties by blind people for Microsoft to fix this problem, we have yet to see a version of BitLocker that addresses this issue. A blind employee who is required to use a computer with Microsoft BitLocker installed will be unable to turn the computer on and get it running—not to mention use it.

Microsoft SharePoint, a program used by many institutions (many of which employ the blind), is not fully accessible to the blind. SharePoint has been found to be so frustrating for the nonvisual user that a third-party vendor believes that it can sell an add-on solution to large enterprises (e.g., state or federal agencies) that costs as much as $12,000 for a single user license. If Microsoft's accessibility effort were working, a product that is as widely used as SharePoint would already be as convenient and effective for the nonvisual user as it is for everyone else.

There does not appear to be any user-experience research being conducted by Microsoft into improving efficiency for keyboard-only users, including the blind. This has already had a negative impact on keyboard-only users of the spell checker in Word 2013, which no longer provides accelerator keys to speed up the selection of options when spelling errors are detected.

Microsoft struggles to implement an API (application program interface) which makes it easier for screen-access software to get information about application states, messages, and controls. Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and User Interface Automation (UIA), two examples of existing accessibility APIs, have existed within the Windows operating system for many years, but they have apparently not done much to solve the accessibility problem. While I applaud the fact that Microsoft has worked hard to ensure that Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 have worked with updated releases of screen-access software on the day they were released to the public, it must also be recognized that, in order for this to have happened, the screen-access software vendors (very small companies in relation to Microsoft) had to devote considerable resources to make this happen. It would be better if these relatively small companies could spend more time and effort coming up with innovations that improve the efficiency and productivity of blind users of their software.

Unlike its main competitors on desktop and mobile platforms, Microsoft has failed to provide built-in support for refreshable Braille displays to be connected to and used on its various platforms. This is particularly vexing for users who are both deaf and blind for whom refreshable Braille displays are the only way to interact with computer software. The Apple Macintosh and the Apple iPhone support a variety of refreshable Braille displays without requiring the customer to install device-specific drivers, and these products entered the market well after Microsoft began working on accessibility.

The maintenance, setup, and recovery of Microsoft Windows continue to be inaccessible to the blind. Consequently, there is an added cost in time and/or money to the blind user, who has to bring in (and often pay for) sighted assistance to install, upgrade, or repair a Windows system. This situation is unacceptable—especially given the fact that Apple OS X and iOS operating systems incorporate accessibility tools that enable the blind computer user to perform maintenance, upgrade, and recovery tasks without sighted assistance. Moreover, this problem curtails the ability of the blind to accept Windows system support jobs in information technology."

Woah their partner, major software developers have been having similar issues with accessibility for decades now. For instance the ability for the blind to deal with Windows if it crashes or errors out is pretty much non-existent.

https://nfb.org/sites/default/files/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm15/bm1504/bm150403.htm

Google isn't much better breaking accessability in the name of protecting content.

So I will have to respectfully tell you to get off your high horse.

Love this perspective shot.

Pushing allies into enemies is what we do best apparently.

This is particularly bizarre considering Al Qaeda was sworn enemies to Iraq. How does that saying go? Oh yeah, the enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Don't worry, he has staffers to leak all the other information through their Starlink connection at the White House.

Nope, real estate hawks have been raising the prices and forcing everyone out of the trailer parks so they can redevelop them into condos.

I am sure there are some depressed areas that would be able to house them in shitholes like Mississippi.

Won't they be surprised to have a bunch of criminal white folks moving into their neighborhoods. What could possibly go wrong.

Nothing inspires people like hollow threats. These clowns are so far away from leadership material it is pathetic.

Hmm let's check the Bible for passages on transgender. Oh look, there is none really and certainly nothing about keeping them out of bathrooms.

This is the real problem with religion. They just pretend anything they dream up is suddenly part of their holy tenants. This is absolutely false.

We have to stop taking their word and force them to prove it. You think gays don't have the right to marriage? Gather a diverse panel of biblical scholars and prove it by citing their holy scriptures. If they can't come up with a consesus, just shut the fuck up and go home.

Says the loser that does fuck all everyday.

Nice try conservative policy maker!

I do, they don't know what the fuck they are doing.

Inexperience and policy making are like trying to mix oil and water.

Sure, the cloud is a cancer on computing. It may make some sense for large corporations but for small and medium business it takes away their agency. IT staff should be developed and in house coding should be the norm.

Allowing cloud and AI to run everything is a recipe for disaster.

Oh look guys, another Nazi apologist to block!

Give me a fucking break. Do you carry water for all facists or just him?

He is a corporate hack from Fox News. This is literally the textbook definition of facism. As far as the Neo Nazi bit, I think the Iron Cross covers it for me.

They are, he is an extremist Christian. These are all used as dog whistles by Neo Nazi.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5191413/peter-hegseths-tattoos-are-raising-some-eyebrows

Oh I like that. Schrodinger's box with presidential immunity in it.

Yeah, I heard Truth Social and Xshitter has been real hard on him.

Nobody gets treated worse from the guy who is literally bending all social networks to his agenda. Probably one of the stupidest things he has ever said.

They already created their own version. Go the fuck home and play in your shitty fort of conservative conspiracy theories.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page