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Re:Chromebook accessibility: Changing the order of mouse but... by avar on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:20AM (#18815239)
The sentiment expressed in many comments here are why it's only a matter of time before regulators are going to come down hard on the software industry with some ADA-esque law, and they'll probably be right to do so.

Making a physical device accessible to everyone gets into zero-sum design decisions, whereas Google's going to have a hard time arguing that a feature X11 has had for decades is something beyond its resources to implement.

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Re:Chromebook accessibility: Changing the order of mouse but... by SilasX on Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:56AM (#18816020)
>Google's going to have a hard time arguing that a feature X11 has had for decades is something beyond its resources to implement.

I don't know, Mozilla had an easy time justifying how they broke the key remapping API with no replacement [1], even though Super Metroid (1992), on the SNES, allowed you to do that. SMH.

[1] Extensions can remap keys ... after a tab's page has loaded. Which means that if you have move-tab-left/right remapped, you can't sail through the tabs because they'll randomly stop to wait for the page to reload.

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