<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">Hi Karen,</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 18 Sept 2021 at 12:44, Karen Lewellen via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I had seen media information stating that the pharmacist issued paper <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"></span>copies would still be fine as well, making the claim otherwise rather a <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"> </span>concern due to Ontario.ca's established lack of accessibility.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"> </span>so, if you have copies from your pharmacists, there is no need to do <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"> </span>anything else to establish proof.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">FWIW, I have been using <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.ohri.immunizeapp">the CANimmunize app</a> long before COVID; I have long needed a vaccination passport -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of_Vaccination_or_Prophylaxis">a WHO "yellow card" which has existed since the 30's</a> -- cause I've been to places that won't let you in without a Yellow Fever shot (as well as protection against a bunch of lesser but still nasty bugs).<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">Its interface is clunky but it works, and I'll be using it to store my COVID jab receipts.</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
as for the issues with Linux accessibility in general. Speaking <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"> </span>personally? A much better goal would be raising the profile of Linux as a <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"> </span>platform widely used by the public, so that accessibility related surveys <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"> </span>and tests will count those who choose Linux over other things.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">As someone who finally gave up and loaded Windows on his laptop after two decades of fighting with Linux sound systems, battling desktops and inferior drivers, I'm quite convinced that lack of profile is not the cause. We've had twenty years of "this is the year of the Linux desktop" and it now rings extremely hollow, even if you count Chromebooks. Despite many many years of trying Linux has never risen out of a low-single-digit percentage of the installed base, and the very-real reasons for this stagnation are many.<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">We thought that every major update of Windows -- from 98 to XP, XP to Windows 7 and then to 10 -- would lead to backwards compatibility issues that would bring swarms to Linux desktops. Now the predictions are made about Linux getting a major boost when Windows 10 users are forced to 11. While some will bring their now-orphaned-by-MS systems to Linux, the paradigm shift predicted by some will refuse to materialize ... again. On the server side the story is totally flipped, but on the desktop Linux is for enthusiasts, software developers, other power users and not much beyond.<br></div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">Personally I think in this case web accessibility issues are in the hands of the browser maker rather than the OS, anyway.<br></div></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">
<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch, <span style="font-size:12.8px">Toronto Canada</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.8px">@evanleibovitch / </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">@el56</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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