That is ridiculous.

If I want to paint apples, and you want a painting of pears, it's not ableist for me to tell you no. It's not ablist to iterate out your possible options for getting a pear painting either. And that's what he's done.

Now, the entire painting profession might be ableist in that there are certainly barriers to entry. But it's not a single artist's responsibility to fix painting as a whole.

My point is, if you truly think the situation with raync is ableist, help develop tools so that more people can program. Enable people to program. Don't just shout down the guy who said "go program". That doesn't help.

As a disabled open source developer, it's almost as if the universe guided me toward this horrendous take specifically to annoy me. If you're trolling, you did a good job of it.

A paraplegic can't build a house, but can learn to code.

Sure there are people with cognitive disabilities who might not be able to do it, but you can't expect every open source project to be completely accessible even to the most severely cognitively impaired. That's a great way to kill the open source community.

Commerical products should absolutely be required by law to provide reasonable accessibility, because they have the resources and manpower to do so and are driven by a profit motive. Grants should be available to help smaller companies meet these requirements so they're not disadvantaged relative to the big ones.

But using ableism to justify making excessive demands on open-source project maintainers who in many cases are doing it solo and for free as a passion project, is kind of absurd. And where does it stop? Can I post a silly little flash game on a public git repo intended as nothing more than a personal project for learning Lua scripts, and then some internet rando tells me I have to add full interpretive ASL, real-time alternative text, and optional eye-tracking controls? If that's above my level, does that mean I can't post my silly little flash game?

Also, ability is not the same thing as aptitude. Not knowing how to code isn't a disability any more than not knowing how to wire a house. I can't tell an electrician (specifically a hobbyist who works for free) that he needs to rewire my house for me just because I don't know how to do it. I can learn home wiring, or I can pay a professional. But expecting every hobbyist to serve my needs for free just because I don't have their skill sets would be insane.

I like this analogy. One virtue that it has is: Obviously, not everyone can realistically learn to do their own carpentry. It requires a certain amount of time, space, opportunity, capacity for spatial reasoning, and some minimum level of able-bodiedness. None of which are universally available to everyone.