If you release a program for use by other people, accessibility is your responsibility.
If you create a website for other people to use, accessibility is your responsibility.
If you make a platform for people to come together and meet on, accessibility is your responsibility.
If you make a framework for other developers to build things on top of, accessibility is your responsibility.
This means that if you make a script that does something that only you personally will get anything out of, that's fine, make it as inaccessible as you like, only you will deal with any consequences that arise from that. But if you make something you're going to release to the public, and you don't know a thing about accessibility, don't you dare expect users to do to the work of learning your codebase, and making your thing accessible.
@devinprater And that’s where shit falls apart. The link to the source code may be in some walled garden. And to that FSF says distribution is not a FOSS requirement.
@devinprater So in the end we have accessible binaries floating around with inaccessible source code and inaccessible docs, yet that still gets the “free software” label.
@koherecoWatchdog I think you and @devinprater are talking about different kinds of accessibility
@huy_ngo @devinprater ah, sorry. I guess he meant accommodation for impairments & disabilities.
Well, GPL is based on the fact that a user of some software can get the source code and modify it.
GPL does NOT require that one distribute the source code to anyone but the user.
GPL does NOT require that the software is free of charge for a user. I can make GPL code for a large enterprise to use it for their internal use, charge for it and not give it to the public.
Herein lies all the complications regarding accessibility, morally vs legally.
@devinprater what if I release my software publicly but don't expect anyone to actually use it?
@wolf480pl Just note that in the readme
@devinprater it's in the LICENSE but ok
@devinprater This reminds me of a heated FSF thread. FSF says that FOSS need not be accessible at all, which is technically true, but then they also say that all copies of the source code must be distributed w/binaries if binaries are distributed. But then they relaxed that b/c ppl often just want the binaries. So FSF says it’s good enough to distribute a link to the source w/the binaries.