concern over fedora's meeting videos

kendell clark <coffeekingms@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:50:32 -0500

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hi all
The subject is kind of vague, so I'll try to clarify. In order to
participate in video meetings with fedora's council or anyone else
that uses it, you currently have to use google hangouts. I'm not
averse to this even though it's closed source software, but there's
still a rather concerning issue. Currently, I believe, I don't know
for sure, but I think the only way to do this is by installing either
google chrome or chromium. This wouldn't be a problem, except that
chrome and chromium provide no accessibility support. That is, orca,
the main linux screen reader, cannot get at the contents of web pages
to read them. This can be fixed by installing an addon to
chrome/chromium called chromevox, which is a screen reader
specifically designed for chrome. This isn't a major problem, except
that until this is done, a blind person cannot use chrome. The
procedure for doing this isn't at all intuitive. You have to go to the
chrome app store, type in chromevox, and install it. After this,
chrome will be accessible. This isn't easy  to do in fedora, largely
because fedora doesn't feature chromium, and I object to chrome's
license. I'm not writing in to complain, but just to ask if there are
any plans in place to migrate away from something that requires a
specific web browser to participate in? If this were doable in firefox
or any derivitives, this would not be an issue, because firefox and
it's spinoffs are accessible to orca.
Thanks
Kendell clark