RE: Blind user complaining on Adobe web site

[Arthur Torrey]

(yeah! something other than flagellating RMS's deceased equine....)

I sort of agree, but at the same time, it appears to me that the FLOSS software 
world is far less 'disability friendly' than the fruit company or the other big 
name OS....  My S.O has just become legally blind due to medical issues, and 
while I've been looking at what might be available in the way of low-vision 
setups, I've been rather underwhelmed...

It seems every resource person she has heard from is pointing at the fruit 
company products as being most 'low vision friendly'.  As a paraplegic I have 
minimal (no) need for accessibility stuff on my computers, but when I look at 
what the quads I know who need more adaptive setups are also using fruit 
machines almost entirely.

I'm not a programmer of anything more complex than an Arduino, so not a lot I 
can do to fix things personally. 

It seems like a lot of the lower level of accessibility in GNU/Linux seems to 
be a combination of a (somewhat understandable) lack of 'itch that needs 
scratching' among mostly able bodied developers, and the wide range of 
interfaces / API's / not sure what to call them that exist in the FLOSS world.  
While usually this diversity is a strength, IMHO it is a problem when trying to 
come up w/ a consistent UI that works w/ every application.  OTOH the fruit 
co's "One Way to Do Things" seems to make it easier to design an accessible UI 
that works w/ everything, and then focus on making it better....  I don't know 
what the solution is, I just wish there was one.

ex-Gooserider

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Arthur Torrey - <arthur_torrey@comcast.net>
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> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:34:30 -0400
> From: Greg Knittl <gknittl@sympatico.ca>
> To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
> Subject: Blind user complaining on Adobe web site
> Message-ID: <f5c4681f-a63b-cefd-2e53-017f78b7a121@sympatico.ca>
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> fyi. pdf accessibility issues may be bigger than just XFA...
> 
> https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/anyone-know-how-a-blind-person-is-supposed-to-create-or-edit-a-pdf-when-acrobat-isn-t-screen-reader/m-p/10186392?search-action-id=167355598977&search-result-uid=10186392
> 
> I see enormous convergence of interest between Linux and the disabled as 
> we are both 2 small and often overlooked minorities. The disabled may 
> have more formal legal rights than regular Linux users that we can 
> piggyback on...
> 
> Greg