Yesterday in #LibrePlanet chat I named the #Makepad project, a real adorable 😍 effort that's still lacking on the #a11y side, i.e. could do with some #AccessKit on board.
Today I found out that Makepad is apparently part of a #Rust appdev effort, called #Robius. Another project here is #Dioxus.. also in for @accesskit#accessiblity support.. maybe. 🤔
Robius looks like a very loose conglomeration of independent projects. Maybe AccessKit is even a fit to it?
Facebook/Meta starts talking about the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish as predicted:
"“You could imagine an extension to the protocol eventually — of saying like, ‘I want to support micropayments,’ or … like, ‘hey, feel free to show me ads, if that supports you.’ Kind of like a way for you to self-label or self-opt-in. That would be great,”
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 #freesoftware 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. Learn more at #LibrePlanet 2024: https://u.fsf.org/43y
We're a local FOSS meet up that meets at Hamilton Restaurant and Bar in Brookline.
We'll be having our monthly meetup at 7PM tonight. See: https://bostonopen.dev
We'll meet up in the Jupiter room after closing talks. Come say hi and let us know if you're coming so we have some sense how big a table to get. (Some of us will also brave the weather and walk together)
> #a11y has long been confined to only a handful of the largest, most well-resourced UI toolkits, leaving a large proportion of #FreeSoftware inaccessible to disabled people. AccessKit [provides] an accessibility abstraction and glue layer that can be reused by many toolkits across programming languages.
In #LibrePlanet talk about #GNU#Taler the speaker Iván Alejandro Ávalos Díaz is warning us about our future in 2050 where we no longer have #Freedoms to choose our payment systems, pay with cash, or pay at all if we were behaving 'naughty'.
About twenty five #LibrePlanet participants are taking a walk from the Wentworth Institute of Technology, along the Emerald Necklace, up Newbury Street, through the Boston Gardens and Commons, to Quincy Market in the North End right now. Say hi if you meet them.
Want to contribute to the #LibrePlanet program? Organize a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session, i.e. a time for people to get together around a specific topic, project, or identity, either to focus on conversations, come up with new ideas, or just spend time socializing. You can announce your session at https://u.fsf.org/41p
Coming up at LibrePlanet 2024: Exploring free software entrepreneurship, free software legislation, and the Debian community in Brazil. See you there! #LibrePlanet
Starting now: the FSF associate member meeting and the lunch break here at LibrePlanet 2024. We'll see you on the other side of the break! #LibrePlanet