concern over fedora's meeting videos

[kendell clark]

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hi
Ah, then my email wasn't needed then. I'd still rather fedora used an
oss tool to do this, but I trust fedora knows what it's doing, and
will switch when one that's good enough comes around.
Thanks
Kendell clark


Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2015 7:50 PM, "kendell clark" <coffeekingms at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> hi all The subject is kind of vague, so I'll try to clarify. In
>> order to participate in video meetings with fedora's council or
>> anyone else that uses it, you currently have to use google
>> hangouts. I'm not averse to this even though it's closed source
>> software, but there's still a rather concerning issue. Currently,
>> I believe, I don't know for sure, but I think the only way to do
>> this is by installing either google chrome or chromium. This
>> wouldn't be a problem, except that chrome and chromium provide no
>> accessibility support. That is, orca, the main linux screen
>> reader, cannot get at the contents of web pages to read them.
>> This can be fixed by installing an addon to chrome/chromium
>> called chromevox, which is a screen reader specifically designed
>> for chrome. This isn't a major problem, except that until this is
>> done, a blind person cannot use chrome. The procedure for doing
>> this isn't at all intuitive. You have to go to the chrome app
>> store, type in chromevox, and install it. After this, chrome will
>> be accessible. This isn't easy  to do in fedora, largely because
>> fedora doesn't feature chromium, and I object to chrome's 
>> license. I'm not writing in to complain, but just to ask if there
>> are any plans in place to migrate away from something that
>> requires a specific web browser to participate in? If this were
>> doable in firefox or any derivitives, this would not be an issue,
>> because firefox and it's spinoffs are accessible to orca.
> 
> You can use Firefox for hangouts.  There is s plugin that needs to
> be installed but then it works.
> 
> That doesn't address the wider issues of using a non-oss tool, but
> hangouts itself does not require chrome.
> 
> josh
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> 
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