An Accessibility spin of Silverblue, with the best experience possible?
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I read this discussion thread but it was closed pretty soon. I read @vpolasek 's post on daily use of Desktop Linux as a blind person and found it really interesting. There was the idea of a spin, which I think fits it. Why should blind people use a sighted Desktop with a screenreader? This makes no sense to me. I am really curious and think this is essential, it should be a very high top priority. Blind people will probably have very different needs, and I am would love to discuss what the b...

Accessibility is a really important field. Everyone should have the right to use a free and friendly Operating System.

But its a pretty nieche topic, and I also think current ways of implementing it are not perfect.

I created a Thread on Fedora Discussion (Link) but Lemmy is way more active so I would love to spread attention to this topic, and collect your ideas.

  • How should a blind Desktop be structured?
  • Are there any big dealbreakers like Wayland, TTS engines, specific applications e.g.?
  • What do you think would be the best base Desktop to build such a setup on?
  • Would you think an immutable, out of the box Distro like “Fedora Silversound”, with everything included, the best tools, presets, easy setup e.g. is a good idea?
  • How privacy-friendly can a usable blind Desktop be?

Also, how would you like to call it? “A Talking Desktop”?

I am excited for your comments!

  • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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    8 months ago

    Thanks for your experience!

    So you would say terminal and text based is best.

    This could be done rather easily, in comparison to a fancy desktop. Like this:

    # start OS, login, terminal emulator opens
# terminal is always accessible when pressing 1 or something

> apps
Office
Web
Video
Audio
Games

> Office
Writer
Calc
...

> writer
# opens writer in a new desktop, fullscreen. Switches to the app and says its name

> 1
# switch back to terminal

> time
It is 12:53

> date
#...

    And so on. This would be pretty nice! Flatpaks would be somewhat of a problem, one would need a script to alias the names to their short names, I did that and I think it works well, but still a bit specific.

    Repo

    Haha maybe window managers are the next big thing for accessibility?