Getting Involved

[Bridger Reed-Lewis]

Good evening, I am interested in becoming a tester, and help collaborate
together on ideas to ensure accessibility in future kde iterations. Nate,
one of the board members, let me know about your sub-group, and I emailed a
few folks listed as contacts. Just didn't hear back, figuring reaching out
directly to this email would be more effective.

Before getting involved though, I should introduce myself. I am the
disability advisor for The University of Anchorage Alaska, and while I am
doing this on my own time. I do hope to get the university involved since
we have a very active disability, and accessibility work groups at UAA.

Recently, the university wrote a article about me which goes in detail
about myself you can read about it here...
https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/news/archive/2025/05/chd-disability-advisor-bridger-r-reed-lewis.cshtml


I'm very passionate about what I do, and I believe Steam OS as a whole
could be a massive benefit to ensure a better market share, this comes with
some challenges though because while steam os is great for gaming, once
it's released to the masses later this year.

The OS as a whole will have some disadvantages mainly the lack of
accessibility tools, which as someone with a disability has been the
largest reason they haven't moved fully to linux. Ended up on Macs because
of how much i hate windows, but once thing apple has about them is there
gold star for supporting disabilities in there OS.

I also want this in Linux, and I'm here to help along
with assisting with networking with professionals to ensure communications
and collaboration with developers/companies alike. Let me know if you have
any questions, and I hope to chat with you soon.

Sincerely,

Bridger R. Reed-Lewis
Disability Advisor | Advocate | Speaker
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