Couldn't read past the first line. There are plenty of actually disabled and visually impaired people who have written about the shortcomings of accessibility tools on Linux.
Because he wasn't talking about any of those people.
NewJazz is right. It is a straight up ad hominem attack.
I have never seen the phrase “virtue signal[er]” used in a non-pejorative way.
This post could have been written to explain people are working on it and trying hard and it’s really demoralizing and asking for more help.
It wasn’t.
If we ignore the tone, they’re basically suggesting that it’s unfair for people without impairments (A) to boost posts from the visually impaired (B) complaining about issues, because the As don’t face the issues.
Which would reduce the number and visibility posts dramatically. Effectively silencing the B users to a large degree.
But I don’t that’s truly intended. This piece seems pretty clearly born out of frustration and emotion.
I don't know what's hard to understand about this. It's a pretty universal human experience. We've all had to listen to people just complain and experience how that makes us want to just say "fuck it" and stop doing the thing. That's it. Nothing more. Stop trying to twist this into things. You can read it as "shut up or pony up".
These criticisms aren't coming from nowhere. There are legitimate shortcomings.
> If he wasn't talking about those folks, maybe he should have specified that rather than seemingly characterizing all criticism of GNOME accessibility as some sort of anti-GNOME conspiracy.
| What do virtue-signalers and privileged people without disabilities sharing content about accessibility on Linux being trash have in common?
| They don’t actually really care about the group they’re defending; they just exploit these victims’ unfortunate situation to either fuel hate against groups and projects actually trying to make the world a better place.
I'm not sure how that's supposed to be a reasonable point of view. Keeping the problems nicely hidden from the larger community is not going to help anyone. Of course merely talking about a problem isn't going to solve it either, but it's more likely to lead to solutions in the long term.