Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu Accessibility, only as good as your testing and feedback.

["Rusty Perez" <rustys lists gmail com>]

Hi Luke,
Though I have been using computers for a long time, I am very new here
on linux and orca.
What do you suggest I know, and how long do you suggest I wait before
I might know enough to be able to file reports effectively?
I don't want to file a report for something that my pc is doing 'cause
it's a slow piece of junk. :-)
Let me know what you think.

Thanks!
Rusty


On 10/23/07, Luke Yelavich <themuso themuso com> wrote:
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> Hello all
> I have seen much talk about the state of accessibility for Ubuntu 7.10
> Feisty, and how some
> people have had no problems, yet thers are also those who are disappointed
> in the way things are
> for this release. I would like to make it clear, that the quality of
> accessibility is only as
> good as your testing, and feedback. By feedback, I do not mean posts to a
> mailing list, hoping
> that your questions will be ansered, and your feedback heard. The *BEST* way
> of giving feedback,
> is filing bugs against packages in Ubuntu. Once a bug is filed with specific
> information on what
> the problem is, and how it can be reproduced, action can then be taken to
> track down where the
> problem is, and get it fixed.
>
> Please note also, that I am currently the only one working to improve screen
> reader
> accessibility in Ubuntu, and I do it in my own time. If I was to receive
> funding to spend extra
> time working on Ubuntu accessibility, things would likely be a different
> story, but this is
> currently not to be, so I do what I can, when I can.
>
> As the new leader of the Ubuntu Accessibility team, I intend to put a call
> out for more helpers,
> whether it be in testing and feedback, being in contact with upstream
> projects, bug triajing, or
> packaging. The Ubuntu Developer's Summit for the hardy release is next week,
> and I hope to take
> a thorough look at where things stand accessibility wise, and what goals can
> be set, and
> implemented for the hardy release.
>
> Finally, I would like to thank everybody for sticking with Linux, and what
> it has to offer
> accessibility wise. I know it would be so easy to return to using what you
> know and feel
> comfortable with, but at least part time, choose not to, because you believe
> in a free
> alternative to proprietary accessibility technologies. This is also what I
> believe in, and do so
> very strongly and pashionately. There is still a ways to go yet, but with
> yor support, feedback,
> and testing, we can be a match, if not much better, than those technologies
> that more often than
> not, cost way more than what people with disabilities can afford.
>
> I would also like to thank the upstream project developers, and testers,
> whether paid, or not.
> If it weren't for your outstanding efforts, we would not have Linux
> accessibility as it is
> today. Please keep on encouraging your users to file bugs, give general
> feedback, and test. It
> requires all of us to pitch in, but together, we can only improve the chance
> that we may offer
> free accessibility technology equivalents to the masses, at a level of use
> that is on par with
> our proprietary competition.
>
> Thank you for your time and patience, and above all, for your support. Lets
> make Ubuntu Hardy rock!
> - --
> Luke Yelavich
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