[Slighty-Offtopic] Fedora Accessibility

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 9/4/06, Patrick W. Barnes <nman64 at n-man.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 13:53, "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 9/3/06, Terje Bless <link at pobox.com> wrote:
> > > Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >This is mostly a report of a yet unanswered post in fedora-list. Some
> > > >blind dude asked for help with some tech I have never come accross. It
> > > >seems neither has the majority of the people over on fedora-list.
> > >
> > > Just as a side note...
> > >
> > > Having a knowledgeable blind user willing to do testing is a big boon to
> > > getting accessibility implemented right. I would suggest the project
> > > grabs hold of this person and tries to keep him happy.
> > >
> > > Both Apple and Microsoft have been focussing strongly on Accessibility
> > > lately — and particularly for blind users — so this will get to be a big
> > > theme going forward for marketing-ish reasons as well as the normal
> > > reasons.
> >
> > I couldn't agree more.
> >
>
> It wouldn't be a bad start for us to make sure that our new contributor
> processes are sufficiently accessible.  I'd be willing to bet that the blind
> would have a difficult time contributing even if they wanted to.  If we open
> the doors for people with disabilities to contribute directly, they could
> make some of the necessary changes without mandatory assistance from others.
>
> I must admit, my vision is bad and it certainly isn't getting better, so I
> have a little incentive to push for an accessible Fedora desktop.  ;-)
>
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Does anyone even know if FC6 will have a speakup modified kernel?
Apperently for some, just having that was enough.

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