Re: "Accessibility in Fedora Workstation" (fwd)

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may I ask from where he obtained his software engineering degree?
Studied computer science?  Perhaps disability studies?
there are certainly scores of  disabled individuals with these various=20
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qualification..even who are Linux users.
The interview did not document a single one, outside of his experiencing=20
blindness..which is not going to insure he creates an accessible platform=
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for fedora since access  refers to several populations.  and he states he=
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knows  nothing about those.



On Sat, 13 Aug 2022, Milan Zamazal wrote:

>>>>>> "KL" =3D=3D Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> writes:
>
>    KL> What bothers me most are his lack of actual qualifications, and
>    KL> absolute dismissal of what he has not experienced..as if he
>    KL> defines Linux usage for everyone.  That attitude is dangerous,
>    KL> because he is educating those outside of the accessibility
>    KL> experiences, who will believe his ignorance is factual.  he has
>    KL> to be expert, it is his job.
>
> Hi Karen,
>
> I know Lukas personally and I admire his skills and qualifications.  I
> also know first hand that he is open to constructive feedback and I
> believe he=E2=80=99d be happy to be corrected about possible technical
> inaccuracies in the interview.  It may be also a good opportunity to
> find out what=E2=80=99s possibly missing in making anybody better informe=
d.
>
> As for =E2=80=9Cabsolute dismissal of what he has not experienced=E2=80=
=9D, what
> reasonable free software alternatives to a less or more standard desktop
> with Orca and a software synthesizer can you see for a common blind user
> who needs to use a fully working web browser, to read and process text
> documents, to be compatible with other computer users, etc.?
>
> And let=E2=80=99s be realistic.  We celebrate every single developer hire=
d to
> improve accessibility.  This tells something about the state of the
> matters.  We cannot expect that a single person will fix all the kinds
> of accessibility problems in all the environments.  Lukas works at his
> job focusing on certain areas currently seen there as urgent ones and I
> appreciate this opportunity.  Anybody else seeing a need to work on
> other areas is welcome to contribute to whatever sees fit, as I do.
>
> Regards,
> Milan
>
>
>
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