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Microsoft announced their latest round of FOSS fund recipients. We're thrilled to share that @NVAccess are among this quarter's recipients. From: https://github.com/microsoft/foss-fund
"A project of the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office, the FOSS Fund provides up to $10,000 USD in sponsorships to open source projects as selected by Microsoft employees."
Congratulations also to The GNU Compiler Collection, Urllib3, CLAP & MSW.
#OpenSource, #FOSS #Free #Software #NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y
@NVAccess Congrats, both for being selected this year and for possibly being the only project to get funding twice. It also shows there aren't just a tiny scattering of people who are onboard with accessibility at Microsoft, which is a useful reminder sometimes.
@simon @NVAccess MS seems like the only big company who really takes enterprise accessibility seriously. If you've never seen Azure for example, you'll be astonished how fricking good it is. Sure, it's not perfect, but the vast majority of things are labeled, modals are actual aria modals, notifications come through live regions, the cloud shell is actually accessible, controls have proper roles, landmarks are there etc. I even wrote about this on Twitter once and the feedback was tremendous, I'm reliably informed that people "up top" in the Azure team saw and discussed my tweet in some kind of executive meeting. I've also played briefly with other enterprise tools of theirs, including Azure Data Studio, PowerBI and whatever the SQL Server thing was called, and they were all great accessibility-wise. Same with VS Code, Visual Studio, the now discontinued Visual Studio for Mac, it just all works. Compare this to something like App Store Connect, which I fortunately never had the misfortune to use, but which barely works with a screen reader if you can say even that.
