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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