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@fireborn The truly sad thing is you could write this kind of post about every single operating system that we use, even ones that we say works very well actually, like Windows. I've tought several people how to use computers over the years, and inevitably something will come up where they'll ask me but why? And I have no good answer. It's gotten to the point where I don't even actively notice some of the workarounds I do anymore because they're just so natural to me now. I often say if operating systems were as broken for sighted folk as they are for us, everybody would be outraged. It would never, ever, ever fly. Windows has sharp edges. Mac has a lot of sharp edges. iOS has sharp edges. Android has them. ChromeOS seems forgotten and is just one giant edge. And every single one of them has different failure modes. Different things that don't work how they're supposed to. Why do you never linger on this particular section of the UI? Oh it's because if I remain here for too long, things will slowly fall apart and crash. Better tab on quickly! Why do you always very quickly switch out of your terminal? Oh because I know if I execute this particular command, there will be a *lot* of text output, and I know it will take my screen reader down. Are just normal things sometimes. I love computers because they let us take part in life in ways we never could before. But at the same time I hate computers because every day is a reminder of how much we don’t actually truly matter. Everyone's running ahead and we're expending everything we have just to not lose them completely.

@talon @fireborn And, at the risk of piling onto the gripefest, all of this just makes me feel guilty for not doing more to fix things. But I know I can't and shouldn't be responsible for fixing it all.

@matt @fireborn You're doing enough. You're doing more than a lot of people. I could learn how to help fix things myself and I feel guilty for not doing it, but I also have to understand that I simply do not enjoy this kind of work. I *can* do the work I do enjoy so I do that instead. So don't worry. I appreciate all you're doing and when I complain about things like this it is never meant personally in any way. No one person can fix this by themselves. I don't imagine a lot of Linux GUI work isn't done for some kind of compensation. You did contracted accessibility work. So why don't we have more of that? It clearly helps.