[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#734235: electrum: Electrum is not accessible

[Fabian Rodriguez]

Package: electrum
Version: 1.9.5-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

A blind user raised the lack of accessibility problem in Bitcoin wallet
applications:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ufacn/bitcoin_wallets_are_inaccessible_for_blind_people/

Electrum does not seem to be supported with the Orca screen reader. It would be
useful to enable accessibility support so this package can be used by everyone,
including those with disabilities

A few pointers:
* https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility
* https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/stable/gad-
overview.html
* http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/painless-accessibility-tips-for-gnome-
designers-and-developers/

Thank you for considering this.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages electrum depends on:
ii  python           2.7.5-5
ii  python-electrum  1.9.5-1

electrum recommends no packages.

electrum suggests no packages.

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