I have not been involved with the GNOME a11y development in years but I think that the main problem that a11y has everywhere is the lack of funding. Back in the day I worked for IBM doing a lot of Linux A11y and we were part with Sun in the big push that came during the GNOME 2 era but our work had to stop because there was not a lot or interest or money for Linux A11y.
I had never heard of this phone platform so I am not sure how much interest there is out there for it. cheers 2017-10-05 3:46 GMT-05:00 Peter Vágner <pvdee...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > After Nokia's Meego, Ubuntu's phone, Mozilla's FirefoxOS there is yet > another similar global story taking place these moments. > Yes, I'm talking about Purism LibreM5 secure linux based phone. > What is so special about it that made me post this message into the Gnome > Accessibility community is the fact Purism have partnered with Gnome > foundation as an addition to other partnership. Read the press release at: > https://puri.sm/posts/gnome-foundation-partners-with- > purism-to-support-its-efforts-to-build-the-librem-5-smartphone/ > None of the previous attempts at a linux based phone mentioned > accessibility. It took Apple several years to bring accessibility support > to their IOS. It took Google even longer to add accessibility into Android. > Accessibility on linux is something Gnome has pioneered in with most > notable contributions from Sun microsystems and Igalia and Rethat. > The accessibility stack is not rapidly evolving nowadays, however this is > the opportunity the whole Gnome Accessibility community and the Linux > Accessibility community has earned with the mentioned partnership. > Don't you feel ashamed that no accessibility related work is being > considered as coming out of this partnership? > How many years do we have to wait in order to make yet another upcoming > mobile platform accessible? > Are some accessibility related discussions taking place that are not known > to the general public yet? > Can Gnome foundation consider putting some resources to this goal? > If done right what we need is touch input support made accessible for the > desktop and for the mobile. Purism have used Gnome and KDE as the platforms > fueling their device. They have not partnered with Samsung to reuse EFL, > other smaller communities to choose their UI paradigms and graphical > enviromment as the building block. They have chosen Gnome technologies. > So please I do really feel kicked out no accessibility related work is > known to have slipped to the public through this colaboration. Is there way > to influence this somehow? Can we poor individuals relying on the > accessibility support do something at this point? Not only we do need > accessible devices because of law regulations and strong enterprise > policies, we do also have hobbies, our personal lives and even dreams. I > would say such a platform with accessibility support is not on the bottom > of visually impaired individuals and people with other health impairments. > wishlists. > > Thanks to everyone for at least reading my message. > > > Greetings > > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > >
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