<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <p>Hello,</p> <p>my name is Vojtěch Polášek and I am working as a software engineer at Red Hat.</p> <p>There exists a group of visually impaired and blind people at Red Hat which tries to improve accessibility of Linux desktop.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>You can see one of our outcomes in form of this Fosdem presentation:</p> <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2949-enhancing-linux-accessibility-a-unified-approach/">https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2949-enhancing-linux-accessibility-a-unified-approach/</a></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.<br> </p> <p>Thank you for answering and best regards,</p> <p>Vojtech Polasek<br> </p> <p><br> </p> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <style> @import url(https://static.redhat.com/libs/redhat/redhat-font/latest/webfonts/red-hat-font.css); </style> <p class="fullname-container" style="font-weight:bold; margin:0; padding:0; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom:0; font-family:'RedHatText', sans-serif;"> <span class="firstname-container">Vojtech</span> <span class="lastname-container">Polasek</span><span class="cert" style="color:#aaa; margin:0;"></span> </p> <p class="pronoun-container" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 4px; text-transform: capitalize; font-family: "RedHatText", sans-serif;">he/him/his</p> <p class="position-container" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-family: "RedHatText", sans-serif;"> <span class="position">Software engineer, Security compliance</span> </p> <p class="legal-container" style="font-weight:normal; margin:0;margin-bottom:4px; font-size:12px; font-family:'RedHatText', sans-serif;"> <a class="redhat-anchor" style="color:#0088ce;font-size:12px;margin:0;text-decoration:none;font-family:'RedHatText', sans-serif;" href="https://www.redhat.com" target="_blank">Red Hat <span></span></a> </p> <div style="margin-bottom:4px;"> </div> <p class="contact-container" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "RedHatText", sans-serif;"> <span class="email-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="email-anchor moz-txt-link-freetext" style="color:#000;font-size:12px;margin:0;text-decoration:none;font-family:'RedHatText', sans-serif;" href="mailto:vpolasek@redhat.com">vpolasek@redhat.com</a> </span> </p>  <div style="margin-top:12px;"> <table cell-padding="0" cell-spacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="100px"><a href="https://www.redhat.com"> <img src="https://static.redhat.com/libs/redhat/brand-assets/2/corp/logo--200.png" width="90" height="auto"></a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </body> </html>