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Call for unpaid Gutenberg User Testing (make.wordpress.org)
submitted by rkingett
razzretina 1 points 3y ago
It kind of looks like for what they're asking, someone should be paid or otherwise compensated. Not very many people know all of this stuff and those that do can't put aside a ton of time to do that much work for free. Like, I might be able to look at stuff on my phone and tell you if it works or not, but I don't know the first thing about web 2.0 standards or code or anything.
rkingett [OP] 1 points 3y ago
I mean, everybody on the wordpress accessibility team is not paid, but it just baffles me how so many make something and then never think about blind people using it, when blind people have been using an older version of this thing for decades now. IIRC, they just got funding to do a full audit. Not quite sure though.
razzretina 1 points 3y ago
Especially things that are heavily text based. I think I’m the only person on earth king of excited that Wordpress just bought Tumblr; maybe they might make this text heavy blogging platform actually useable! As for the unpaid accessibility team, I’d say there’s a difference between volunteers and random people on the internet who just so happen to have one of the disabilities you want to make your site accessible for. There probably is someone here who can do this work and wouldn’t mind volunteering, but most of us fall in the testing category and can’t really help (but are happy to see someone thinking about us).
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