Hi! What is the model of the phone you bought? Thanks in advance. /A > 2 sep. 2020 kl. 03:46 skrev Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Somebody wrote: >> >> Would be good to know when you get the device. > > My phone is in transit (somewhere between Los Angeles and San Bruno, California) as I > write this. In theory, I should receive it some time on Thursday. > >> I was wanting to get one myself, but wasn't sure of the options for accessibility. > > I don't expect the device to have any particular options for accessibility. I can try > to evaluate and report on the physical hardware (e.g., how hard it would be for blind > users to replace the microSD card), but this is only a small part of the story. > > As I detailed in my (rather long winded) note the other day, most of the accessibility > options for a mobile phone depend on the installed software: operating system, window > manager, applications, etc. So, I'd expect the default behavior under postmarketOS to > differ quite a bit from that of Manjaro or any of the dozen or so other Linux variants > that claim to support this device. > > In any case, none of these variants seems to have blind accessibility on their radar. > The closest I've found so far is Mobian, which (as a Debian derivative) may benefit > from the efforts of the Debian accessibility community. > > <whine> > The Linux community is famously Balkanized, with hundreds of distributions. The blind- > friendly subset is much smaller, but still has several current variants (along with > several more that are "pining for the fjords"). These variants are distinguished by > their base distributions (e.g., Arch, Slackware), hardware platforms (e.g., ARM, Intel), > package complements (e.g., Fenrir, Orca, Speakup), etc. > > Please understand that I'm not dissing these variants, let alone their developers. It > just makes me sad that none of them seems to have acquired any substantial user base. > Given the relatively small percentage of blind folks in the general population and the > even smaller percentage of Linux users, this seems all too predictable. But still, the > result is that there isn't a large enough community of users to support the kind of > development and support that I'd like. More to the point, I worry that my pipe dreams > of "cell phone Linux for the blind" could easily go in the same direction. > > My _hope_ is that I can find a solid Linux variant for mobile phones, based on a popular > flavor of Linux. Then, I can try to fold in a working set of accessibility packages, > based on the existing work of assorted current and historic distributions. If this can > run on a large number of repurposed Android phones, it might provide a good start on a > system that blind users around the world can afford. But, it's all SciFi at this point. > </whine> > > - Rich Morin, rdm@xxxxxxxx > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list