Re: [orca-list] State of linux accessibility

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Yes, yu have done great work, and I think one of the ways that will get more blind folks interested in Linux 
is to just casually mention somenice 
program that is easy and or fun to use and then let them ask about it, e.g., xboard. 
Trying to argues someone in to using something is more likely to make them more stubborn in  resisting
 it.
You can seldom convince illogical people with logic,justlook at politics in your favorite country, well at 
least the two I've lived in a show this to be 
true.
Making people curious about and/or envious of something yu have will bring them around, or as they say: "You 
catch more flies with honey than with 
vinegar.".
Of course some people are not selfish, and do get the value of FOS for its own sake, but most will need to be 
convinced by how well things work. 
I wa not going to post in this conversation, but somethiing made me read your post and inspired me to say 
thanks again. Part of it is seeing just how 
well some things work, and how quickly they can get done with out buracratic overhead. Sometimes I see folks 
focusing 90% of their attention on what is 
broken and what is not getting done rather than on what is going well or improving. 
If someone does not have the knowledge to code, they can learn to file bugs, or if someone is not a tch wiz 
they can try and write documentation that 
folks who are also less than super-geeks will understand. 
The bottom line is we do not need everyone to contribute to make Linux and  especially accessible Linux 
greater than it is, we only need YOU, the person 
reading this!


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     B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886


  sathyan wrote:
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 07:57:44AM +0530

>    Dear list,
>
>    discussion on linux accessibility is very healthy. Ofcourse linux is the
>    only platform which is free and open-source. If it is not accessible, let
>    the world be ashamed of it. We the activists do whatever we could do.
>
>    Firefox is the most difficult of all the softwares and that is perfect
>    with orca as joani and the team work very hard. Then all other software
>    can be made accessible easily.
>
>    From my part, me and nalin have made tuxtype and tuxmaths accessible, made
>    xboard the chess program accessible and also, have made a beautiful
>    braille environment in linux by developing ibus-sharada-braille for typing
>    text using six keys which is already in debian repository. THESE things
>    are not there in any other platform. So let us try hard.World will be free
>    one day.

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