<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@alatiera" class="u-url mention">@<span>alatiera</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://geeknews.chat/@theregister" class="u-url mention">@<span>theregister</span></a></span> </p><p>I _strongly_ disagree. </p><p>Anything that hinders accessibility, removes or disables assistive tech, and so excludes people with disabilities is much, _much_ worse. </p><p>I deplore anything that does that, whatever the intentions. Even if the plan is to put it back later, that's not good enough. </p><p>Always remember the philosophy of Kaizen: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Continual advancement by small changes, _never going backwards_.</p><p>It is my _duty_ as a reporter to call this sort of thing out and criticise it.</p><p>It is _fifteen years_ since GNOME 3.0 and today MATE _still_ has better a11y than GNOME.</p>
