Getting Involved

[Bridger Reed-Lewis]

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 --> https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions that could be forked into a
simple dictation tool, it's surprisingly, very accurate.

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.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 20:28 Benson Muite <benson_muite at emailplus.org>
wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
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