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What I see:
"Denmark Set to Replace #Microsoft Software with Open Source Alternatives

Denmark's Digital Ministry is replacing Microsoft services with LibreOffice and Linux."
What I read:
"Denmark is excluding screen reader users from opportunities to get a job at their public institutions".
to those who are happy about the #OpenSource move: you should never forget that there are lots of users, already vulnerable in our society, whose chance to get a decent job drastically lowers from already being quite low to asymptotically nearing zero.
I wonder however, what happens on June 28th this year when #EAA (European #Accessibility act) enters in vigor.
How would those who ditch #Microsoft and #Google products so hastily adhere to this law? Or will they just do as if accessibility legislation was not a thing?

#Accessibility #google #opensource #microsoft #eaa

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Mikołaj Hołysz

@x0 @talon @fireborn I don't think you necessarily need to do much lobbying, you just show how bad of an idea it is and how much it would cost, and the rest just happens.

To be honest, there are plenty of reasons to hate Microsoft, but they're at least semi-competent at their job. Linux on the desktop is just a bunch of moving parts that very few people (especially in Europe) seem to be using on an enterprise scale. If you have a problem with a Microsoft product, you're probably the hundredth person to have that problem this week, and it's all on Google. If you're doing the same on enterprisey desktop Linux, you probably need world-class Linux experts to help you out, and those don't work for government salaries.

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aaron

@miki @x0 @talon you fundamentally misunderstand enterprised Linux. There are very few moving parts, if everything runs a stable or declarative system which are the only 2 ways you should be deploying Linux Desktop in a business context. Rhel versions are supported for 10 years. You can run that same version of RHEL on your servers and workstations that entire time. Windows, on the other hand, updates and everything falls apart. Plus, in a lot of cases, at least here, there’s a push to get away from US big tech software because they are ecosystems that are trying to achieve corporate lock-in, and no company wants to be essentially held to data ransom with another coat.
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holii

Good question. I decided to do a little, emphasis on little, research.
Ubuntu has support for a lot of the tools that I know people with needs of suck a kind require help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-…

Libre Office, which the Ministry of digitization plans to use, also has support for such tools libreoffice.org/get-help/acces…

What am I not seeing here? Accessibility is vital, and thus important that we keep improving on

Accessibility | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

LibreOffice, Accessibility, ODF, Open Standards, interface
www.libreoffice.org
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André Polykanine

@holii It's more like… on paper. I very strongly recommend you to read at least this article by @fireborn: fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…. Aaron wrote two more articles on the same topic, but in order for you to start understanding the struggle, please read this.

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn

fireborn.mataroa.blog
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