Hey everyone, you may remember me from my previous post where I was interested in gathering feedback from accessibility users.

After that post, I touched base with the GNOME Accessibility team, and what I discovered is that we need to work more closely with Orca screen reader users in particular.

I looked for such volunteers on the GNOME Matrix Accessibility channel, but unfortunately I was unable to find any there.

Are there any Orca screen reader users on this subreddit who would like to establish a working relationship with me so that we can slowly improve the screen reading of various GNOME applications?

Thank you!

  • Hi. I'd be very interested. I'm fully blind, use a screen reader daily, and I have tried daily driving Linux (mostly with Gnome as the DE) before. Linux accessibility needs a lot of work and I'm really happy to see this!

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    Wonderful, I have sent you a message!

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  • Are there any accessibility groups not linked to Linux you could post to? Or even groups tangentially related?

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    Good idea, I am going to crosspost to r/Blind

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  • Accessibility work? In and with GNOME? Color me surprised. Last time I asked about magnifier stuff, I was literally told to "just make an extension"...and later, to implement it as a shader. Yeah right x)

    Anyways, I still have pretty good vision, so I don't use Orca. But I will forward this post to others that I know and other places. Who knows o.o

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