On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 23:57 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Karsten König wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 14. April 2010 23:13:10 schrieb Christian:
OK, this is my last message to this list and noone seems to be willing to help. This is so simple for you opensuse user's. If logged out from Gnome, how many times should one press the tab key in order to get to the login button or is there some keyboard command for enabling this button? And finally, where can I post suggestions so that they will be implemented in some future release of the OS? This is important, at least to me when it comes to accessibility. Many thanks, Christian
I am downloading the gnome image right now, it's 11 pm here and every student seems to be awake in the dorm downloading something, so I can only try again tomorrow, it will take hours to download now =(
Try ftp5.gwdg.de directly. 500 MBit bandwidth reserve currently. You would not get it all, but the filesystem has reserve currently too.
I am normally no GNOME user but KDE so I can't just test it.
Still you found the blinux list already, it seems dead though, I cc'ed bryen, afaik he is also visually impaired and works on gnome a11y from time to time.
It was a no-good decision by Novell/SUSE some long time ago to release their only one "truly" blind worker. I have an almost blind collegue, and he states that since that point, blinux support at Novell/SUSE got slowly steadily rotten.
Not completely true. Actually, there were two blind users who were let go. But there is one that still exists on the mono-a11y team. And he attempts to use openSUSE when he can, but does run into some difficulties compared to other distros out there. This is regrettable. Neither of the two that were let go were directly involved in openSUSE, nor is the one currently employed. The problem, for me personally, is I don't want to completely rely on him, nor any other Novell employee to be the authoritative answer on solving accessibility issues. Reasons are: 1. Not all accessibility issues are the fault of Novell/SUSE. There are some real changes going on in GNOME, especially in preparing for the upcoming GNOME 3.0, affecting accessibility (or a11y). And that's an impact for *all* distros, not just openSUSE. The GNOME-A11y team, of which I am a part of, is trying very hard to meet these issues but without good funding, we are unable to ensure complete perfection by 3.0 release. 2. I would never want to completely rely on any one person for their expertise of accessibility because it is truly a lot of work to put on a single person 3. It is a misnomer of accessibility to say that to have a "truly blind" person would cover the issues of accessibility. Accessibility is a very BROAD area that covers MANY MANY types of impairments. What we want and need is a body of people that can participate in testing and providing guidance in effective openSUSE accessibility. For me, as a Deaf-Blind user, I pose unique challenges as my vision continues to deteriorate and my ability to read my screen gets harder each month. I can't use some of the traditional tools that other blind users use, like screenreaders that speak out the text on screen. It is education, not just actual existing impairments, that will help openSUSE move forward as an accessible distro. As an example, at the recent GNOME A11y Hackfest in California, out of the 15 people present, only two were visually impaired, and of that, only one is a developer. :-) But the rest of the team... WOW... sharp guys who really understood the needs and developed accordingly. Because they were educated as such. As we move forward into a stronger and self-sustaining openSUSE community, we must do away with the thinking that "Oh, Novell needs to hire more a11y users." Actually, yes, I'd love to see more a11y users be employed. :-) But the point I'm making here is, if we want to be a successfully accessible distro, we need not only skilled developers, but also community members and users to come forth and discuss their issues in a more prominent way. This is actually difficult at this time because we haven't really seen that many speak up or make themselves known as accessibility users in whatever form. This is actually a very timely topic as those of us with openSUSE who were involved with the recent Hackfest had our own meeting to try to address how to move forward on this issue. And last night I spent a couple of hours just mulling on this topic and what to do to choose our next step. I hope this starts a long and invigorating discussion that instates openSUSE as an accessible distro (which sadly at the Hackfest/A11y Conference, it was deemed to be an inaccessible distro compared to others.) Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member (and accessibility user!)
SUSE - The Linux Experts - has "set free" their only "blinux expert" who was expert by own patience - the best expert one can think of, sorry, but true and proven.
I hope there is a chance to regain expert status at this field back, and my almost-blind collegue even more than me, I guess.
Suggestions can be posted to https://features.opensuse.org/ with a novell account, I don't know how accessible the opensuse pages are, if you need help just write to the list or me and I'll forward your suggestions.
I remember SuSE beeing very proud about a11y for visually impaired users, but I can't judge about the current state =(
"Was". "Is" would be a self-illusioning statement by non-blind deciders which would vote it blindly. But expert status for the biological, not the real blindness would be a better gain.
You asked if brttly includes USB support in the current release, sadly it's not even included in 11.2 but only in vuntz (Vincent Untz) personal home project, so if you add his repository you can download and install it.
Also I suggest mailing to opensuse-gnome as well, maybe some of them are not subscribed to this list.
Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
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