Jean Louis pointed at Vinux - which I had found and looked to me like a near-dead project - The home page is non-https, and is skeletal at best... The Wiki is talking about the 'latest version' as of 2015, and while it says the last update was in 2019, the download site doesn't connect (Firefox times out w/ can't find site error) and there have only been about 2 changes to the wiki since it was created in 2013 according to it's history page...
I found a few other low vision projects and they seemed similarly moribund. I asked on another site and the response I got was either similar pointers to seemingly dead projects, or that because most of the mainstream distros now have some level of accessibility built in, the low-vision / blind specific projects have mostly died. As a non-programmer, who has listened to a few presentations at Libre-Planet and read articles here and there I can't contribute any code, but as a 'partly baked idea' my thought about how it might be possible to do a better job on accessibility might be to try and tap into the system at a much earlier level.... What would happen if instead of trying to put accessibility in at the window manager (KDE / Gnome / etc.) level, there was instead an X-Windows driver that provided input to a screen-reader as a "display type"? How about having an "accessible keyboard" option (probably as an intermediate layer between the usual keyboard choices and the rest of the system as that would make it easy to use any desired key-mapping underneath it?) It seems to me that the closer the accessibility options are to the "bare metal hardware" the less they would be relying on window managers / programs to do the "right thing", and the more universally consistent they would be. Possibly less universal, but still coming in at a fairly low level, what if there was an "accessible" option for choosing the internationalization when setting up? As I said this may be something that wouldn't work for reasons that are above my pay-grade to understand, but perhaps might just be something that hadn't been considered. ------------------ Arthur Torrey - <arthur_tor...@comcast.net> ------------------- _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss