Re: [orca-list] The State Of Linux Accessibility

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

The best way to ask for a feature is not to compare that feature you
want to something that another fundamentally different operating system
and set of applications does. Frankly, I get rather tired of hearing
that "this application is completely inaccessible" when I use it every
day with little to no issues, and I'm also beyond tired of hearing
"Windows does this or that better," when I havent' used Windows in
years, and wouldn't if Microsoft was to pay me to use it, the best of
luck to anyone who can make that happen. The best way to ask for
presentation software such as Impress to be fixed is not to say that
Powerpoint works wonderfully with Window Eyes, but Impress doesn't work
with Orca. The best way to state the problem is to present to the list
or file bug reports against the software itself, telling the developers
how you want Impress to work with Orca specifically. Mentioning other
OS's that the Orca developers for example don't use will result in more
wasted bug report space and more bugs and feature requests that get
stuck in the queue for years, because no one knows what it's not doing
right or how to fix it. From statements I've seen here about
LibreOffice in general, I shouldn't be able to use it at all, but I
have already been able to do much more with LibreOffice writer than
either my wife or I was able to do on a Chromebook, which is my only
basis for comparison. See what I mean? When I make statements like
this, no one will know what I'm talking about. Instead, we need
concrete information about what Impress for example is not doing, and
how it can be improved so that we can use it, rather than simply saying
that Microsoft Powerpoint does it better on Microsoft Windows with a
specific screen reader called Window Eyes, which few people on this
list use, and none of the Orca devs nor the LibreOffice devs use it
either, leaving completely aside the fact that even if a different
application on a different OS with a different screen reader works
perfectly, that information does little to nothing for the rest of us.
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