Welcome Ritchie! Looking forward to seeing KDE accessibility becoming even more amazing.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM Ritchie Frodomar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > My name's Ritchie. I have recently joined up with the KDE e.V. as an > Accessibility Engineer, and wanted to formally introduce myself on the > mailing list. > > I am 23-year-old a legally blind programmer and game developer. I taught > myself to program at the age of 10 after my diagnosis, as computers became > an extremely important part of my life. Gamedev is how I express myself > creatively, but software accessibility is extremely important to me. > > I use KDE Plasma on my daily system as I find it to be the best desktop > environment to use with my vision loss. Kwin is currently the best > implementation of a screen magnifier on multiple monitors, including > compared to proprietary tools. > > Some of you may have already seen me on the KDE Matrix, and on KDE Invent > working on Kwin, NeoChat, KTextEditor, and my own KCM for gaming mice. I > intend to continue that work, and to improve general accessibility across > all of KDE. > > I likely won't be directly active on this mailing list, because email is > not the most accessible for me. I am however reachable on Matrix (@ritchie: > matrix.acidiclight.dev) in the KDE rooms if anyone would like to say hi. > > See you guys around! > -Ritchie > > -- > *----* > *Ritchie Frodomar* > https://acidiclight.dev/ > > *"Programming is basically all about making mistakes and then spending a > lot of time fixing them. When you see it that way, you can’t feel bad about > making mistakes!" - Raphael Buquet* > -- Cheers, Kristen
