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GNOME Wins Award For Accessability Architecture

Posted by timothy on from the toes-up dept.

Motor writes: "The fine GTK/GNOME accessibility architecture work done by Sun Microsystems has won an award from the American Foundation for the Blind. See more details here. Accessibility is a vital feature for any desktop system hoping for widespread use, so this is great news."

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  1. Congratulations! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Interesting


    It certainly warms my heart to read -

    "has raised the bar for the computing industry"
    when written by non-geeks about an open-source product. (Remember that next time someone claims that open source only imitates, never innovates.)

    BTW, there's an AFB announcement here.

    FWIW, I have a friend who has been totally blind since birth, and I had the privilege of helping him get started with UNIX. I have also watched him work with his reader (human) on a college programming assignment, and it's a thing both amazing and inspiring to watch.

    --
    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  2. XNews port? by Jake96 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been trying lately to convert entirely to Linux for my desktop system, and one of my sticking points is that XNews is only available for Windows.

    This ties in to this story because the author of XNews, Luu Tran, has cited Windows' accomodation of his severe visual impairment and Linux' lack thereof as the reason he has taken no interest in porting to Linux. Perhaps he'll check out G2 after hearing this news.