Getting Involved

[Benson Muite]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025, at 11:15 AM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for your interest. Are there any KDE applications that you use where
support could be better?  Do you have any computer labs where linux is used
or KDE applications are used?

KDE e.V. recently appointed Ritchie Frodomar as accessibility engineer:
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2025q2/008193.html

>
> 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
> He/Them