I think accessibility for the blind will help us all. For example, there are times when a sighted person might be better served with an audio interface, or an alternate visual interface.
I hope to explore some of the options myself. Thanks for the pointers, Mengual. On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 3:21 PM MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjean...@free.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > > Le 15/04/2018 à 15:49, Steffen Möller a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > > > The problem with Debian for supporting blind users is that most of its > > developers are not (yet) visually impaired beyond wearing glasses. They > > don't have the devices which are costly and even if they had then they > > likely have nobody to test it. I have no immediate idea how to help that > > situation. > > It is quite important that accessibility work not to be done only by > disabled persons. First because in free software, disable persons are > few. Next because to make an inaccessible program accessible, difficult > without any idea about what it looks. Major developers of accessibility > in free software have no visual problems: Orca is developped by > Joanmarie, GNOME accessibility by Alejandro Pinero, Debian installer by > Samuel, etc > > To help, you can take as basis what Samuel Thibault explained at Debconf > 2015 (Heidelberg). His talk explained many things. Other useful > resources are on Development page of the Hypra website. > > To sum up, exploring a program via accerciser shows what it sends to > accessibility stack and how it is accessible. Running orca with -e > braille-monitor option shows what a user will read on a braille display. > brltty provides similar features for people without braille display > (Samuel does not have one). Finally, if devs could label correctly their > widgets and create correct relationship between them, it would help. > > In Debian, the fact the installer is accessible is quite excellent. The > fact the accessibility is enabled by defautl in GUI is good. I think the > most effort needs to be done upstream now. Of course, see > https://wiki.debian.iorg/accessibility-devel for todo specific to > Debian. For example, adding a tag to mention if some package is or not > accessible would be a good idea. > > Regards > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Steffen > > > > > -- -- Best Regards. This is unedited. This message came out of me via a suboptimal keyboard.
