I am a blind game developer, a11y advocate, and an Accessibility Engineer working with KDE e.V. on Plasma/KDE accessibility.
Views are my own, not that of organizations I work with.
| Website | https://ritchie.page/ |
| Socially Distant | https://sociallydistantgame.com/ |
| GitLab | https://gitlab.acidiclight.dev/ritchie |
| KDE Invent | https://invent.kde.org/acidiclight |
...color-coded*, whoops
Also the colors are impossible for me to distinguish meaning a household chore I could previously do on my own now requires the help of someone with better sight.
I'm sorry but that just shouldn't be necessary.
context:
Property manager replaced our neighbourhood's trash dumpsters with a stupidly sophisticated system of color-coated recycling bins that rarely get emptied.
Garbage piles up. Wind picks it up. It lands on peoples' lawns. And no one picks it up.
Sighted parent didn't see it, slipped on it, ended up in the emergency room.
Will anything change? Please? Ugh. Smells like shit too.
Nobody takes me seriously about accessibility hazards in the real world until a sighted person is affected by them in a freak accident.
Makes me wonder why I even bother.
every time I open a new KDE project in CLion, it asks me if I trust the project author
idk, jetbrains...the community that pays my salary is pretty trustworthy.... :P
so uhhhh
fun bug I have to track down
Zoom into Plasma
go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Zoom & Magnifier, set pointer mode to Hide, hit apply
zoom in to maximum zoom
zoom out to minimum zoom (but don't _completely_ zoom out)
Observe the GIANT TROPICAL MOUSE CURSOR that shares its territory with tarantulas
