Re: Lending a Helping Hand

hello Thomas,
Welcome to our Mailing List
me too i am a blind user
i was a windows fan, but not anymore
We  would maybe colaborate to build a KDE Powered blind Users Accessibility 
community
Thank you and let me know if you want to start getting me up.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 10:49 PM
Subject: [Kde-accessibility] Lending a Helping Hand


> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to introduce myself and offer my assistance to those of
> you who are working towards a fully accessible KDE desktop
> environment.
>
> My name is Thomas Ward, and I have been a c/C++ software developer for
> about 10 years. I am totally blind, but have been a strong Linux user
> and supporter for many years. I am currently using the Orca screen
> reader for Gnome, and would like to lend my help wherever possible to
> your efforts to making KDE fully accessible to blind and other
> disabled computer users. Although, I myself am not very experienced
> with QT or the KDE desktop I am certainly willing to learn and study
> any API documentation, technical guides, etc you think would help me
> get up to speed with what I need to know as a developer to lend a
> helping hand with the work that needs to be done with KDE
> accessibility.
>
> In the mean time Joanie, from the Orca team, has mentioned you are
> currently working on KDE 4.8 beta. If you need on the ground blind
> testers to test things I'd be willing to compile and test whatever
> needs to be tested, file bug reports,  suggestions, etc so we can jump
> start KDE 4.8 accessibility. Right now I'm using Ubuntu 11.04, and
> will probably use that as my testing/development platform unless their
> is any real reason to switch to a different distribution. Thanks, and
> let me know how I can help.
>
> Sincerely,
> Thomas Ward
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>
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