Hi Kendell, I would like to congratulate you for your extremely
useful work on Linux accessibility sphere.
The main thing I know is your are not alone. In the French community
there are two projects, Hypra and Freedom #0 that aim to track
and resolve accessibility issues. These movements are young and I
expect we can help you in the quickest way.
For Hypra, we work mainly in the Debian community with the help of
Debian Accessibility group. For me this year is a huge for
accessibility because we are lot of people that want to make the
dream possible. You should keep to hope in the future. We are going
to make free software a credible alternative to proprietary
software, we are going to make disabled people free !
Best regards,
Alex.
On 06/11/2015 07:36, kendell clark
wrote:
hi all
This is going to be a long email, so if you don't have time to
read it, just skip it. It's not much related to orca, but I'm
deliberately posting it hear so that the most people will see it.
Thisis a hard email for me to write and is off topic. I can't
understand what I have done to alienate the blind linux community,
yet this seems to be exactly what I have done. I posted an email
to this list deliberately, rather than the speech-dispatcher list
because more people subscribe hear and someone was likely to know
the answer. I asked luke on irc first, but as I said earlier, I
missed his message. I'm honestly gotten to the point where I'm
approaching burn out. Right now I file bug reports for three
desktops, gnome, mate, and cinamon, I'm a co developer of the
sonar distribution and I help out fedora, when I have time to
breathe, that is. I manage a git repository of espeak fixes. But
in spite of all my effort, I don't seem to be getting anywhere.
Before I get blasted, I'm well aware that accessibility resources
are limited, it's why I took these tasks on. But except for
joanie, who does fantastic work, most of the bugs I file don't get
fixed. The reasons vary, but mostly revolve around no one knowing
the accessibility interface. More and more I find myself looking
over the other side of the fence, wondering if windows has this
much trouble. I'm passionate about open source, but somehow I seem
to offend people by my replies. I try to go out of my way not to
complain, and to indicate that I'm not complaining, but somehow I
get accused of ranting when I am not, or of not doing
my homework when there just doesn't seem to be much in the way of
online linux accessibility information. To those who help me, I am
greatful. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I'm not having the
impact I want to have. I want to improve speech-dispatcher, and
yet don't know the code well enough. I want to improve orca, yet I
somehow irritate joanie despite every effort not to do so. The
mate devs don't seem to know anything about accessibility so those
bugs aren't getting fixed. The gnome people know but they seem to
regard the entire accessibility infrastructure as a giant mess
that needs to be redesigned, only no one wants to do it. My
passion for open source seems to be waring away due to simple
indifference. People know there are bugs, and yet they linger. Any
replies to me should probably be sent off list, since this is not
related to orca. Am I not filing good bugs? Is my approach wrong?
I'm obviously doing something wrong because it seems other
people's bugs are getting fixed.
Thanks for reading
Kendell clark
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