GrapheneOS
@ahrienby We aren't excluding disabled people. We've gone out of the way to do work in this area and are continuing work on it. We have limited development resources and our progress is often slow. Progress has become slower due to our lead developer being forcibly conscripted into the Ukrainian army. We can't get much done beyond maintenance right now.
We have our own fork of the open source TalkBack screen reader modernizing it, making various important fixes and making builds reproducible.
GrapheneOS
@ahrienby We have put hard work into this area. That doesn't mean that the end result is going to be perfect yet. There is remaining work to do forking a text-to-speech implementation, integrating that properly and adding Setup Wizard TalkBack integration. If instead of attacking us with false claims and misrepresentations, people would help us, this could potentially be done already.
It often takes us years to add features we want like the recently added network location due to high standards.
GrapheneOS
@ahrienby That contributor to GrapheneOS along with multiple other blind users have informed us that eSpeak NG is not really good enough to make GrapheneOS usable for them. They end up needing to use Google's Speech Recognition & Synthesis or another closed source app in practice to have a usable device. We want to include something that's actually going to be usable. It also needs to fit within our licensing, meaning it must permit commercial usage and must permit making all kinds of devices.
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@ahrienby The post you've linked it making huge misrepresentations of our position and statements. It's presenting fake quotes as if they're things we said.
The post falsely claims we ship sandboxed Google Play as part of GrapheneOS and falsely claims that it uses system and privileged APIs. It's trying to mislead people into thinking we include that in the OS when we don't.
One of the contributors who works on GrapheneOS is blind and has been helping us improve these areas.
GrapheneOS
@ahrienby We want to bundle a text-to-speech implementation into GrapheneOS and it has been planned for a long time. We need to fork one with an acceptable license, make changes to it in order to make it fully work out-of-the-box and integrate it properly. We also need to integrate TalkBack into our Setup Wizard in order to provide a way to activate it at the start. There were issues with several text-to-speech implementations which slowed our progress but there may be one we can use now.
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