Searches for accessibility return unrelated results

[marjae (Marja Erwin)]

Currently the top result if I search “accessibility” is

Disabling camera or microphone access in GNOME Settings does not work

Problem If you use GNOME Settings to disable camera and/or microphone access in the Privacy tab, the setting doesn’t have the desired effect and applications can still use your camera and microphone. Cause The GNOME design for this panel assumes that all applications are installed via Flatpak, and it is unclear that this setting actually only applies to such applications. Related Issues Bugzilla report: #2018158 Workarounds There is not a general setting that will disable camera or …

Because it refers to access. But it has little to do with accessibility, as in making Fedora more usable for disabled people.

[augenauf (Flo)]

I would agree, searching for “accessibility” does not return anything relevant, but did you find the following two posts?

• Fedora Accessibility Working Group
• Fedora 2025 strategy: accessiblity improvements in support of our vision?

[jn64 (Justin Koh)]

Put your search terms in quotes to search literally.

This will guarantee results that match accessibility:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/search?q="accessibility"

While this will include partial matches:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/search?q=accessibility

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We should consider creating a tag #accessibility for Ask Fedora category

List of Ask Fedora Tags

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

@jn64

We should consider creating a tag #accessibility for Ask Fedora category

Do you have some existing questions that should be so tagged?

[marjae (Marja Erwin)]

No, I did not find them.