[Accessibility] Blind Mappers
Seb Hinderer
Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org
Wed May 31 03:30:35 UTC 2023
Dear Mario,
Many thanks for your message and thanks to Vincent, who has kindly
forwarded it to me, leading me to join this list which I didn't know
before.
I live in France, am myself blind and a computer scientist, too (for the
curious, I am @shindere on GitHub).
It was quite natural for me to get interested in OSM because I use Free
and Open Source Software for years now and find it very important to be
able to move by myself and discover what's there around me.
So far I have not really tried to contribute to OSM but rather to (1)
let people know what I need in terms of data and (2) develop some
tooling to explore the map, so far focussing on the parisian metro.
My understanding until now has been that, given the work it would require to
make contribution tools accessible, and given the rather low number of
visually impaired contributors I am expecting, it would not have a good
RoI to try to make it possible for blind people to contribute and it's
more efficient for us to use the data that are there and let others know
what we need. It's not a definitive point of view, just the conclusion I
came to for now but I am definitely open to other ideas and to change my
take on this.
Sorry for the too short mail whereas there is so much to say on this
topic.
Seb.
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