I'm Tony Baechler. See below. On 4/23/2017 4:13 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
I'd be interested in knowing the number of blind people using GNU/Linux in the world, for daily life (so with browser, GUI, etc).
I'm still mostly on Windows XP, but I use Linux on an almost daily basis, mostly on servers. I ssh into various machines from Cygwin. I have Debian testing installed in my second partition but without a desktop. I find Linux copies to USB storage much faster than Windows. When I want to try a console program, I boot into my Debian testing. I had Ubuntu installed, but it crashed when trying to upgrade and I didn't feel like reinstalling.
I just hope the max devs will be common/cross-distros, and benefit for everyone. I hope also that non-regression tests will come in free software. And that distros will have a11y features, in a modular mode, to be universal and avoid specialization. I don't forget the topic is "blind vs mainstream", while my purpose is a fully accessibility beyond vision impairment, but also from a level of knowledge point of view, low-vision impaired people, and other kind of disabilities. But it was useful to have this debate on the mailing list.
I agree. It should be about universal accessibility for everyone. Since this is the blinux list and since this was from the Sonar and Vinux thread, I changed the subject. I'm not familiar with other groups using Linux, but I would say that generally accessibility is lacking for them as well.
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