When is inclusive not really so?

[RypPn]

I'm talking about the various BSDcon's. During the pandemic these conferences were accessible remotely which meant that folks like myself could still stay abreast of what was going on and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Jump forward to the present day and all the conferences are attendance-required events with no thought to disabled people like me who have no hope of attending. Have we been forgotten about or do we just not matter?

For the sake of disabled people who'd like to feel involved I'd dearly like these to be re-introduced. So how about it?

 

[SirDice]

Last EuroBSDcon was streamed?

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In any case, you should probably take this up with whomever organizes the events.

 

[Deleted member 81054]

Jump forward to the present day and all the conferences are attendance-required events with no thought to disabled people like me who have no hope of attending. Have we been forgotten about or do we just not matter?

While streaming events would be a simple effort to address your request, I think I would be more concerned about efforts to make the software/system (and products based on it) more supportive of users with "differing abilities".

Too many interfaces have assumptions of vision, hearing, color recognition, dexterity, mobility, etc. that aren't strictly necessary. Rather, they reflect ignorance on the part of their designers and implementers (e.g., do you REALLY need to position a mouse cursor within a pixel or two of a visible construct? Why isn't that configurable? And, consideration for where competing constructs might be located, geographically? (snap to this vs that)

It's sad that most developers are clueless as to the frequencies of different accessibility issues in the population.

Of course, when THEY become thus affected (age, injury, illness), they SUDDENLY start complaining about these issues -- that they may have previously been guilty of failing to address!

By way of example (this is how ~7.5% of men see the image):

Looks a fair bit different from:

Also make note of the shoes!

[off soapbox]