Dear Aura, Many thanks for having started this discussion.
I think I agree with everything you wrote so I am not going to elaborate as it wouldn't bring anything interesting to the discussion. I also believe that improving the situation on the GUI side, of course including the support of graphical terminal emulators is the most promising way to go. Recently I started to experiment with Windows and I was surprised by the poverty of braille support. Not that I have a lot of experience so I would really like to be contracted on this point, but my feeling was that for graphical widgets Orca's support for Braille is not much more developed that what we have in Orca, if at all. And this in spite of the fact that the community of users and developers of NVDA has noting to do in size with our community, it's way way larger. And this does not even mention the braille support you have with NVDA in a text terminal. To me, there is just no possible comparison with what BRLTTY does. It's a point I do not even manage to convey to visually impaired users of Windows that do not know BRLTTY because, I think, they cannot even imagine what we have. (Again, I would love to be contradicted.) The point I would like to make here is that, in my opinion, GUI and the support of graphical terminals we have on Linux, as broken as it is now, feels to me as the most promising alternative we have, even when compared to other operating systems. It's also the most sustainable I think, provided that we manage to get accessibility integrated in main stream tools. Regarding how this should be achieved, my intuition is that we do not have the manpower to fix all the bugs we encounter etc. and that it would be more reasonable to focus on reporting them as appropriately as possible to make them at least easy to understand and reproduce for the developers. And, I think we may try to speak louder by organizing and coordinating ourselves so that, when a bug is reported, several of us get involved in the discussion. Seb. _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
