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

2022-03-22 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 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 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
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 Sam Hartman
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Carter writes: Jonathan> I installed a Jitsi server for Debian (it's a system for Jonathan> making group video calls), and was really proud that we Jonathan> had this... until we had some blind people join some calls Jonathan> and learned how utterly in

Question about voting when the key on the debian keyring is expired...

2022-03-22 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Apologies for this administrative question, but we have a couple of votes active at the moment, and so inquiring minds want to know. Due to an oversight, I managed to forget to update my GPG subkey's expiration date. I've since fixed it, and uploaded it to keyring.debian.org, but there's the usua