* quil...@riseup.net <quil...@riseup.net> [2021-05-24 16:12]: > I doubt that a sight impairment issue can be solved by a window manager > or by graphics. What I think that a computer which is friendly to blind > users should do is get information (local or external) and interpret it > in braile or in sound. The input side is quite solved, as of > nowadays.
Those applications have to be developed. I am all for that development, but I do not have resources to do it myself. I can make my program here talk and give information to user, in fact I think my dynamic knowledge repository can be easier used by blind people then the common software as browsing withing information is so straightforward. There are countries, organizations, etc, they promote and support accessibility, so they shall put funds and organize projects and people will make it. Emacs is supporting both console and GUI, so it works anyhow. In the same way both console and GUI could already have its OS built-in readers and displays that help accessibility. I don't think that should be problem of high level programmer. It is problem on the OS level, if Linux/BSD/other free kernel does not have accessibility features that is the place to start. Text as fundamental element should not be on higher level, it should always be "text" even if displayed in different fonts or by different graphics, or by different window management system. If it is displayed by Wayland or by X Window system, it should go through kernel api that would process that text. If all the text is processed by the base system then it becomes easier to implement OS based interfaces. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss