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Matt Campbell's LibrePlanet Talk on AccessKit (Making Free/Libre Software Accessible to Disabled People)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 03, 2024

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A week ago this talk by Matt Campbell was uploaded to the LibrePlanet instance of MediaGoblin. Its summary is: "In non-web applications, accessibility has long been confined to only a handful of the largest, most well-resourced UI toolkits, leaving a large proportion of free software inaccessible to disabled people. AccessKit aims to solve this problem by providing an accessibility abstraction and glue layer that can be reused by many toolkits across programming languages. Our aim is to do for accessibility what libraries such as SDL have done for graphics, input, and windowing. This talk will cover what we've accomplished so far, what's next, and how the community can help."

Here is the video (WebM) of his talk. █