Hi,
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 12:09:24 -0500
Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> wrote:
* Have you heard of the Debian Accessibility group?
Sorry, no.
It means that there's an opportunity to people like me can know it more
if the Debian Accessibility group could show their duties and activities :)
* Currently, Debian backports is how people with disabilities can get the
most up-to-date accessibility fixes and improvements while remaining on a
stable base system. For example, the newest version of the Orca screen
reader, with all of its fixes, and newest version of ATSPI, the thing that
makes Orca able to talk to applications. Would you be willing to
entertain the idea of moving those updates directly to Debian stable?
Yes, as I said in my platform.
Provide better Debian “Experience” for our contributors and users.
We are developing Debian a lot day by day, but it seems that won’t reach
most of our users. I’m not sure what is the better way to give more values
(providing easy access to testing/unstable in d-i? more updates to stable?),
but it’s wonderful if we can.
We need some coordination to achieve this, but worth trying.
* How would you present Debian to a group of people with disabilities? What
reasons would you give them for why they should consider Debian?
Honestly, I don't have enough information for that.
It means that YOU people with disabilities need to show what's good/bad
currently in Debian and what should be done in the future, then discuss
with others. Something clear to you is sometimes not clear to me, please
tell us :)
* In many desktop environments, a user cannot use their assistive
technologies effectively unless they find and check a box enabling the use
of assistive technologies. Do you think that this is good and fair to users?
Yes and No.
I'm Japanese and not good at English, so want to use Japanese in
the desktop environment but I should choose Japanese in the installer
that shows in English. It's fair since most people can recognize English
more than Japanese. There is some limitation in the user interface and
prefer majority is reasonable.
However, adding Accessibility software by default is not hard, IMHO.
Installing Accessibility by default and setting "minimum desktop" checkbox
for people who don't need it would be better (of course, it also needs
some coordination to do so).