Introduction of accessibility group at Red Hat

[Vojtech Polasek]

Hello,

my name is Vojtěch Polášek and I am working as a software engineer at 
Red Hat.

There exists a group of visually impaired and blind people at Red Hat 
which tries to improve accessibility of Linux desktop.

We are triyng to influence desktop environment developers and Linux 
distro maintainers to increase their awareness of accessibility. We 
believe that it should be something normal, not something extra. This of 
course includes also proper testing and documentation.

You can see one of our outcomes in form of this Fosdem presentation:

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2949-enhancing-linux-accessibility-a-unified-approach/

We found out that Linux desktop accessibility is a bit wild environment 
sometimes. There are no such standarts as WCAG for desktops etc. And 
since Freedesktop is an entity standing above all desktop environments, 
we would like to explore ways in which we could cooperate.

Could you please briefly describe for me the current situation regarding 
accesibility within Freedesktop organization? Do you have some working 
groups or individual people who actively work in this area? I am asking 
because the content on freedesktop.org regarding accessibility is very 
diverse, especially when looking at its age. There are very old articles 
and documents  as well as very recent ones.

Thank you for answering and best regards,

Vojtech Polasek


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Vojtech Polasek

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Software engineer, Security compliance

Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com>

vpolasek at redhat.com <mailto:vpolasek at redhat.com>

<https://www.redhat.com>
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