I'll add that gnome-accessibility should likely be included by default, but that individual sys admins are at their leisure to remove the package from their images.
I'd also add that as a blind IT professional who works alone for the most part, that not all of us have someone a cubical away to ask for help when we need it. Good plug for tools to be built using inclusive design principals. Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-04-26, at 2:54 AM, Bill Cox wrote: > 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 >
