Seconded! I'll add that programming and Linux system administration are two of the best jobs available to blind techies, and this group hates to ask for help from the sighted. Many of them are big Debian fans. There are some very amusing (to me - I'm not very politically correct) discussions on some of the blind programming forums. These guys will debate for days their guess as to what a non-accessible dialog box is saying, when any of them could just cry for help from the sighted. Also, much of the work Debian does in this area spreads to other distros. It's really great work you guys do for the blind.
Bill On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> wrote: > Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > >> > Please reconsider if gnome-accessibility does have to get installed by >> > default. >> >> This has been considered already, please bring new arguments, else the >> decision has no reason to change. > > > Samuel gave a few technical arguments, I'd like to bring a > non-technical one: > > Just like any public building, or subway station, or mostly any other > kind of newly built thing has, often by law, to be built as > "accessible" as the current techniques allow, in many places of the > world, a computer environment has to be shipped as accessible as > technically possible, by default. As there is no law to enforce this > on Debian, we must enforce this ourselves. > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/20100426053928.gd28...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j2r499d69a01004252354u15f3d328t8e63f30ad901d...@mail.gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j2r499d69a01004252354u15f3d328t8e63f30ad901d...@mail.gmail.com
