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What Accessibility Options Exist for Unix?
pll asks: "My wife is getting a Masters in Human Factors and Information Design.
Tonight she attended a session on Handicapped Accessibility in Technology. Evidently MS has spent years studying this area, and the
options one has under Windows is supposedly quite impressive (provided you install the accessibility packages). According to the lecturer, there are over 50 million handicapped people in the United States alone, and obviously even more worldwide. This got me thinking...the Free/Open software communities pay an awful lot of attention to i18n, but other than Emacspeak, what kind of attention have we paid to handicapped accessibility? I'm not aware of anything, other than Emacspeak, and that doesn't do much to enable the use of Gnome or KDE to a handicapped person." While Emacspeak does have some uses in this area, it's primarily only useful for the blind. What about people without the use of their hands, or features for the deaf, and so on?
Well almost 50% of voters last election voted for Gore, so there's a whole bunch of mentally deficients right there.
"According to the lecturer, there are over 50 million handicapped people in the United States..."
The population of the United States was 285,663,707 earlier today. That is one out of 6. When you look around you, do you see one handicapped person for every 6 people?
Okay, maybe they don't use Linux, but they aren't handicapped.
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Bush's education improvements were
My personal favourite:
Quarters cause cancer!
A breakthrough reporrt has discovered that ordinary Quarters cause cancer. The study was conducted by taking two groups of mice. One group had quarters surgically inserted into their bodies whle the other group was used as a control. The scientists discoverd that the occurence of cancerous cells in the test group was almost double that of the control group!
the morale: don't use quarters!
As a side note, I believe this was an actualy study, although I admit to fabricating the exact details.
Slightly less voted for Bush, so thats a whole lot of fucked up people right there. :)
It's been a long time.