Re: [libreplanet-discuss] accessibility standards for blind users -

2016-03-24 Thread Trish Fraser
> In a recent digest it was suggested - > > >For GNU, we have accessibility standards: > > > https://www.gnu.org/accessibility/accessibility.htmlo If you remove the "o" from the end, the page comes up just fine. Cheers! -- Trish Fraser, VVMZ4 91L2V -35.67910, 142.66607 Thu Mar 24 13:10:09

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] We need a Great campaign To tell the programmers to improve their programs To work well with the screen Reader

2016-03-24 Thread Ali Abdul Ghani
> It seems that NVDA is not fully free software, as its repository on > GitHub lists proprietary dependencies. > It too uses eSpeak though, so I think that rather than try to port this > program to GNU/Linux, it would be better to enhance eSpeak and Orca but > before that, find out if the maintain

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] We need a Great campaign To tell the programmers to improve their programs To work well with the screen Reader

2016-03-24 Thread Fabio Pesari
On 03/23/2016 11:49 PM, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > > JAWS is loosing market share to nvda but of course that only works on windows. It seems that NVDA is not fully free software, as its repository on GitHub lists proprietary dependencies. It too uses eSpeak though, so I think that rather than

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] We need a Great campaign To tell the programmers to improve their programs To work well with the screen Reader

2016-03-24 Thread Alejandro Soto
Then it seems that blind is a spectrum and that 97% of people that are blind in UK can acutually see a bit so screen readers might not be needed but better font contrast. Does this mean that what most people use is the web so that programs (applications) is really not as big an issue (urgent)

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] We need a Great campaign To tell the programmers to improve their programs To work well with the screen Reader

2016-03-24 Thread Alejandro Soto
Then it seems that blind is a spectrum and that 97% of people that are blind in UK can acutually see a bit so screen readers might not be needed but better font contrast. Does this mean that what most people use is the web so that programs (applications) is really not as big an issue (urgent)?