Hello, everyone!

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Ritchie,

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 18:55:39 -0400
Ritchie Frodomar <alkalinethunder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> My name's Ritchie. I have recently joined up with the KDE e.V. as an
> Accessibility Engineer, and wanted to formally introduce myself on the
> mailing list.
> 
> I am 23-year-old a legally blind programmer and game developer. I taught
> myself to program at the age of 10 after my diagnosis, as computers became
> an extremely important part of my life. Gamedev is how I express myself
> creatively, but software accessibility is extremely important to me.
> 

welcome aboard, and good luck. I am mostly active on facebook, email, and IRC
(freenode / libera / etc.).

Regards,

	Shlomi
 
> I use KDE Plasma on my daily system as I find it to be the best desktop
> environment to use with my vision loss. Kwin is currently the best
> implementation of a screen magnifier on multiple monitors, including
> compared to proprietary tools.
> 
> Some of you may have already seen me on the KDE Matrix, and on KDE Invent
> working on Kwin, NeoChat, KTextEditor, and my own KCM for gaming mice. I
> intend to continue that work, and to improve general accessibility across
> all of KDE.
> 
> I likely won't be directly active on this mailing list, because email is
> not the most accessible for me. I am however reachable on Matrix (@ritchie:
> matrix.acidiclight.dev) in the KDE rooms if anyone would like to say hi.
> 
> See you guys around!
> -Ritchie
> 



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