[Kde-accessibility] Re: [kde-promo] Fwd: Free Standards GroupAccessibility Workgroup

[Andreas Pour]

Gunnar Schmi Dt wrote:

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> So our current statement is
> 
> <statement>
> Despite the many ongoing efforts to help persons who cannot see or who have
> trouble operating a standard keyboard or mouse use Linux systems, Linux GUIs
> are still generally inaccessible to these users.
> 
> We, people involved in the KDE project, do not want to support this social
> exclusion but rather see the support for handicapped persons as an important
> feature for every software. The KDE accessibility team knows about the
> problem and they are working on improving the accessibility of KDE.

Just as a suggestion, how about "Members of the KDE Project, organized as the
KDE accessibility team, view the capability to provide services to all potential
users, regardless of individual physical cabilities, as an important feature for
all software.  The KDE accessibility team understands the problems, studies
impediments to the effective use of KDE and works actively to improve the
accessibility of KDE."

That way we lose the "handicapped" word again :-) and perhaps it deals with your
concern below as well.  I think individual signatories is probably not needed in
this case since I don't think any of this is controversial.
 
> In order to get a completely accessible system, applications that use other
> toolkits need to be accessible as well. In this sense KDE based assistive
                                                        KDE-based
> technologies need to interoperate well with applications using other toolkits
> and vice versa. We appreciate the foundation of the Free Standards Group as a
> forum to discuss possible standards for this with other projects involved in
> accessibility.
> </statement>

Realistically speaking, just FMI, doesn't it make sense to place most of the
assistive technologies in the Qt layer?  I ask b/c the statement speaks of
"applications using other toolkits" whereas in fact KDE is not in control of its
own toolkit and I am not sure that the KDE accessibility team can solve the
problem w/out TT's assistance . . . .
 
> What I am not very happy with are the words "We, people involved in the KDE
> project,". These words do only make sense if we write a list of names below
> that statement. Do we want this list of names (or is it possible to write
> e.g., "We, the people involved in the KDE project")?

Ciao,

Dre