Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-04-01 Thread Devin Prater
Gas is rather expensive these days. :D How would you propose we improve the emotional response? I've written plenty of blog posts on write.as/devinprater (some on other operating systems but a good bit about Linux). I'm not very good at making videos, but I can write and edit. Devin Prater r.d.t.pr

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-04-01 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 23:37:03 +0100 Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > I dont think DPL can influence this, indeed. DPL can influence it, IMHO. But, of course cannot force it. Just point "the direction" and show the idea behind it and discuss - that's what I want to do. > Difficult question

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Wouter Verhelst, le mar. 29 mars 2022 20:00:19 +0200, a ecrit: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 09:23:38AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Devin Prater, le lun. 21 mars 2022 22:10:15 -0500, a ecrit: > > > As far as backports, my problem is enabling it. Normal desktop users > > >

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Samuel, On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 09:23:38AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Devin Prater, le lun. 21 mars 2022 22:10:15 -0500, a ecrit: > > As far as backports, my problem is enabling it. Normal desktop users > > probably > > won't even know what that is, and the syntax is rather ug

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-22 Thread Devin Prater
Yeah, right now there is a device being tested, the NLS EReader. This is a braille display that the National Library Service for the Blind in the US is having companies develop so that they can then distribute them, for free, to their patrons. Two versions are being tested, one from the Humanware m

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le mar. 22 mars 2022 11:51:43 +0100, a ecrit: > If it adds a driver for your device, indeed, a backport is a good > idea. Note that sometimes supporting a new device does not actually require a completely new driver, only a small addition to recognize the USB device. That ca

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-22 Thread Devin Prater
So, the Terminal issue was fixed some time ago, so we don't have to worry about that. That was just an example of a bug which *has* happened before. I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 5:52 AM Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > > Le 22/03/2

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-22 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 22/03/2022 à 04:10, Devin Prater a écrit : Thanks. I tried to think of good, useful questions to spark discussion, but I don't know much about the structure of Debian or its project leaders. I do think, though, that if the project leader keeps accessibility in mind, this will filter down t

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Devin Prater, le lun. 21 mars 2022 22:10:15 -0500, a ecrit: > As far as backports, my problem is enabling it. Normal desktop users probably > won't even know what that is, and the syntax is rather ugly, to me at least. Ok, that's one point that could be worked on: creating an easy way to e

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Devin Prater
Thanks. I tried to think of good, useful questions to spark discussion, but I don't know much about the structure of Debian or its project leaders. I do think, though, that if the project leader keeps accessibility in mind, this will filter down throughout Debian as a whole. As far as backports, m

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Devin, thanks for bringing accessibility questions in :) Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le lun. 21 mars 2022 23:37:03 +0100, a ecrit: > Again, not sur the DPL can have a crucial role about this, > unfortunately. I agree, a DPL cannot make current maintainers magically find time to work on issues

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 21/03/2022 à 00:07, Hideki Yamane a écrit : Hi, On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 12:09:24 -0500 Devin Prater wrote: * Have you heard of the Debian Accessibility group? Sorry, no. It means that there's an opportunity to people like me can know it more if the Debian Accessibility group could sh