The @EUCommission wants to know if it should plough money into #cloud and #AI #development. I know there are lots of #OpenSource people with views, so maybe express them here:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14628-AI-Continent-new-cloud-and-AI-development-act_en

Edited with a lot more resources and ways to get involved if you actually wanna get involved.

Hey non-disabled #Linux folk, sure would be fantastic if everyone pitched in on helping the blind and sighted allies making Linux more accessible to disabled users rather than warning us about the end of Windows 10, like we don't already know. Telling us something we already know doesn't help us switch to Linux because while you're lecturing us, Linux still has accessibility issues in the underlying infrastructures.

To start, Here’s a small, impactful thing you can do for now. There are bigger needs but making a fully accessible place one can research and compare distros would be a start. This website is linked to a lot. It’s inaccessible to screen magnifier users because the test is coded in such a way where elements appear behind other elements. All the links in the navigation area are empty and need labels. Making the quiz screen reader friendly by having regular web elements for questions such as radio buttons and other HTML elements without enabling an accessibility mode would be a fantastic start. https://distrochooser.de/

Here's some background on the recent state of Linux accessibility, and a project you can contribute to.

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/

You can help the Fedora team make their KDE spin more accessible than it already is. https://fedoraproject.org/kde/

You can join their core accessibility group, https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/dei-team

Learn about the state of modern Linux accessibility. Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9c

Make more repositories, wiki's, websites, like Linux Access ORG, of accessible mainstream distros and other flavors/spins. Make accessibility guides. Do what big tech does for accessibility but do it better than them.

Help contribute to sites like https://linuxaccess.org/

Gnome's accessibility breakdown... ish. It's old but still valid for most. https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/

and contribute to projects such as Access Kit. https://accesskit.dev/

Lastly, there are a ton of blind mailing lists out there for linux. Read what they have to say. Here's just one of them, this thread provides more. https://inbox.the-brannons.com/blinux/CAO2sX30cKU4i_Nsskitw5gLeYjwjswfMRphf5krmjMH1DK69Cw@mail.gmail.com/#r