Make Google Chrome accessible - info & petition

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3 pointssuperdavid3 comments

A petition seems sort of useful, at least to get the ball rolling, I guess. It would be nice to have Google put more people on it.

But it seems worthwhile to note that if you don't like Chrome's accessibility, you can do something about it yourself. Google Chrome is just a corporate-branded release of Chromium, an open-source project that anyone can contribute to - and Chromium has had a call out to work on accessibility for a while now:

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/accessib...

Nothing like diving in and getting our hands dirty, eh?

I think the idea that users that need/advocate these features can contribute fixes to an open source project is one of the unfortunate myths (for want of a better word) of the FOSS movement. The idea is noble, but, as with Mozilla, the items that project sponsors want fixed/sorted get fixed/sorted, while other "unsexy" features/bugs/components just get left behind for years.

Despite all the flack that Microsoft gets, its browser is far and away the strongest for accessibility, with Mozilla a close second. Sadly Opera, Apple and Google almost need not bother...

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