Re: [orca-list] Purism possibly considering accessibility as future feature of their products

[Rastislav Kish <rastislav kish protonmail com>]

Hey there,

ah, this sounds quite interesting!


I thought they wanted to bring full Gnome & GTK support to the phones,
so my plan was simply to hack into the touch detection layer afterwards
and transform touches to key presses, but having something more
consistent and proper would definitely be awesome.


Though, I'd point out here, that when already doing this, we should try
to avoid the situation from Android as much as possible, to avoid the
current system's state where gestures and touch control are practically
out of screenreaders' hands, and therefore they're not able to introduce
new types of gestures and touch control.


It would be best if Orca could be receiving touch events and forward or
block them like key presses, that way the screenreader could use any
touch screen accessibility approach selected by the developer.


Though, I'd be perhaps better writing this to the mentioned issue,
rather than here? :D


Best regards


Rastislav


Dňa 20. 8. 2021 o 18:12 Peter Vágner via orca-list napísal(a):
> Hello,
>
> You might remember me bringing this for discussion on random occassions.
>
> Here is a phosh issue which talks about screen reader accessibility.
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/issues/47
>
> I think touch screen input accessibility is something we need to pursue
> here as flagship purism product librem5 would not have a chance to get
> accessible with such a feature.
>
> So if you have something interesting to add, please do comment on that
> issue.
>
> Also I think it would be cool if we can try to help with funding
> accessibility features. They have a page where anyone can financially
> support particular feature. Screen reader accessibility is not there on
> the list but there is something called other. So finding text entry
> called other that and filling in Screen reader accessibility and
> donating any amount might help them recognize we are hoping for
> accessibility related developments of their products.
>
> Here is the link to that fund your app initiative:
> https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/
>
>
> Remember they manage to make gnome common apps to scale well on desktop
> and mobile, so adding accessibility to the mix is next good move they
> can do. I'd say now when they are considering it they need our support
> mainly donations towards achieving such a goal.
>
> I am donating some $20 right now and I have noticed recognized debian
> developer donating $50 yesterday. If you like join us and perhaps
> together we can improve the situation.
>
>
> Thanks for considering
>
>
> Peter
>
>
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