Re: [orca-list] how can I support Orca financially

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual hypra fr>]

Le 28/10/2019 à 08:05, Vojtěch Šmiro via orca-list a écrit :
> Good morning.
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> This is good thing to write about. Orca needs some support. I am afraid, 
> if we won't be awaylable to pay on Orca, accessibility will end and it 
> would be catastrophy. I am primary linux user, some people of course 
> too. What shall we do if linux won't be accessible and we don't want Mac 
> and Windows, because we like opensource technologies?

If all Linux users would accept to find ways to pay for this buying 
service around it, it would be a good thing. As companies, we cannot 
accept donations, but would accept to be paid for providing a usable 
system, that money is useful to provide service and fund accessibility 
contributions. That is the idea of Hypra: provide business to fund 
accessibility, paying for original developers or adding new ones. But as 
most free software users prefer "do it yourself" approach, this has a 
limited impact today. But thanks to persons who tried, we could help 
fixing bugs in Thunderbird Nightly, fixing Firefox bugs, contributing 
MATE. It implies a community feedback, but we have it sometimes, so it 
works. We are happy with helping Joanie as much as possible working onf 
apps and, sometimes, Orca.

Regards

> Thanks.
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> Best regards
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> Vojta.
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> Dne 28. 10. 19 v 7:42 Alex ARNAUD via orca-list napsal(a):
> > Le 27/10/2019 à 18:32, Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> > > Igalia pays for my time and doesn't accept individual donations. That 
> > > said, many of the bugs we need fixed for Orca to work are not Orca 
> > > bugs. So perhaps donating to the GNOME Foundation will help them 
> > > realize that these problems exist and need to be fixed in the apps or 
> > > toolkits (e.g. Gtk+) itself. 
> > Hello Joanie and all,
> >
> > I'm not sure to understand how donating to GNOME Foundation could 
> > result to invest into accessibility. How we could make GNOME 
> > Foundation having accessibility in its list?
> >
> > For example we expect to have Wayland/GTK4 as accessible as X/GTK3 and 
> > nothing happen for this except the work made by Samuel from Hypra long 
> > time ago to summarize the situation.
> >
> > Probably guys from Red Hat could help us to make GTK developers more 
> > concern about accessibility. I'll be afraid if GTK4 is released with 
> > major accessibility regressions. In my opinion, GNOME Foundation and 
> > Red Hat should have to prevent having a major toolkit like GTK not 
> > being accessible.
> >
> > See the public discussion about regression we've encounter in GTK4: 
> > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/merge_requests/484
> >
> > I think the debate should be less passionate and we should join our 
> > effort to make GTK4/Wayland being accessible.
> >
> > We'll be pleased to collaborate with everybody. What we need today is 
> > not discussion on what to do but developers having the time to work on 
> > that importants issues.
> >
> > Thanks Vojtěch for opening the discussion.
> >
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