Samuel Thibault

Fediverse Profile link: https://toot.aquilenet.fr/deck/@samuel_thibault

salsa profile: https://salsa.debian.org/sthibault

gitlab profile: https://gitlab.com/sthibaul/

github profile: https://github.com/sthibaul/

Samuel Thibault is a computer science professor, he tinkers with Linux since 1998, started getting interested in accessibility since 2001, and never stopped since. He also participates to the Debian and GNU/Hurd projects, as well as the FFDN.org project.

Accepted Talks:

The sound stack and accessibility screen readers, getting it fixed for real?

A recurring issue with accessibility support on Debian is the concurrent access to the sound stack from multiple screen readers (e.g. espeakup running as root for the Linux console vs Orca running as user in the GUI).

The pulseaudio sound server is said not to really support system-wide server, but the pipewire sound server is said to support it. It thus sounds like an opportunity to eventually fix this concurrent access issue in the Debian distribution.

This BoF is aimed at discussing how to achieve this, and plan actions.