<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">I have heard of him, and it’s one of the reasons why I want to get involved, at the moment I don’t think the university allows Linux to be used, but I could be wrong. At the moment, I am running KDE on my Steam Deck. But I’m planning on purchasing a think-pad x1 carbon Gen 10 soon. One area I’d like to see get added is dictation. There's an abandoned project here --> <a href="https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions">https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions</a> that could be forked into a simple dictation tool, it's surprisingly, very accurate. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Outside of that, I would need to look because right now there's not a lot, and disability itself is a spectrum. without seeing what you are already working on, giving feedback might be hard. But I am more than willing to test anything you can give me, as long as you make the install process easy or give me command props.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 20:28 Benson Muite <<a href="mailto:benson_muite@emailplus.org" target="_blank">benson_muite@emailplus.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2025, at 11:15 AM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:<br>
> Good evening, I am interested in becoming a tester, and help collaborate<br>
> together on ideas to ensure accessibility in future kde iterations. Nate,<br>
> one of the board members, let me know about your sub-group, and I emailed a<br>
> few folks listed as contacts. Just didn't hear back, figuring reaching out<br>
> directly to this email would be more effective.<br>
><br>
> Before getting involved though, I should introduce myself. I am the<br>
> disability advisor for The University of Anchorage Alaska, and while I am<br>
> doing this on my own time. I do hope to get the university involved since<br>
> we have a very active disability, and accessibility work groups at UAA.<br>
><br>
> Recently, the university wrote a article about me which goes in detail<br>
> about myself you can read about it here...<br>
> <a href="https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/news/archive/2025/05/chd-disability-advisor-bridger-r-reed-lewis.cshtml" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/news/archive/2025/05/chd-disability-advisor-bridger-r-reed-lewis.cshtml</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> I'm very passionate about what I do, and I believe Steam OS as a whole<br>
> could be a massive benefit to ensure a better market share, this comes with<br>
> some challenges though because while steam os is great for gaming, once<br>
> it's released to the masses later this year.<br>
><br>
> The OS as a whole will have some disadvantages mainly the lack of<br>
> accessibility tools, which as someone with a disability has been the<br>
> largest reason they haven't moved fully to linux. Ended up on Macs because<br>
> of how much i hate windows, but once thing apple has about them is there<br>
> gold star for supporting disabilities in there OS.<br>
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Thanks for your interest. Are there any KDE applications that you use where<br>
support could be better? Do you have any computer labs where linux is used<br>
or KDE applications are used?<br>
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KDE e.V. recently appointed Ritchie Frodomar as accessibility engineer:<br>
<a href="https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2025q2/008193.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2025q2/008193.html</a><br>
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><br>
> I also want this in Linux, and I'm here to help along<br>
> with assisting with networking with professionals to ensure communications<br>
> and collaboration with developers/companies alike. Let me know if you have<br>
> any questions, and I hope to chat with you soon.<br>
><br>
> Sincerely,<br>
><br>
> Bridger R. Reed-Lewis<br>
> Disability Advisor | Advocate | Speaker<br>
> He/Them<br>
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