[accessibility] want to help the least of us?

TL; DR: see [See the Linux Accessibility Site](linux-a11y.org)

There are many reasons to love Linux, and one of them is the community. The community is the main reason why Linux still thrives on desktops and other consumer tech. One thing that could be improved, though, is accessibility.

While companies' employees can be required to make applications accessible, hobbiests and community maintainers, as well as small dev teams, cannot. People can use whatever UI toolkit they want, whether it be GTK, accessible out of the box as long as devs use standard controls, or QT, which is usualy not very accessible on any platform. Even in the console, there are apps like RTV, a Reddit viewer, which use lots of ascii graphics and a UI that I, and many other blind people, cannot use well. To developers' credit, though, most console apps work fine, and some are a joy to use, like the ZSH setup interface.

We all know that Linux has plenty of choices, and there are some great ones for those who are blind. There's Fenrir, a screen reader for the terminal or console which has many great features, but can always use more help. There's Orca, a screen reader for the GUI, but only works well with Mate, with Gnome coming in second due to inaccessible settings center, and KDE which is just getting started in accessibility.

There are also projects like Ocrdesktop, which tries to OCR any screen which is not accessible to a screen reader, but it doesn't work on Wayland, the default display manager on Fedora. We could always use as many other programs, like a good eBook reader, games, and other programs.

Of special note to myself is the Emacspeak package for Emacs, at github.com/tvraman/emacspeak, which makes Emacs accessible. There are some packages which this doesn't work well with, like MD4RD, a Reddit client.

We even have an IRC server, which can be found on the Linux-a11y site, where you can find plenty of blind folk to talk to, test programs, and generally discuss Linux.