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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. Get ready to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...cue the Helen Keller jokes.

    1. Re:Get ready to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Q: How did Helen Keller burn the side of her face?

      A: She answered the iron.

      Q: How did she burn the other side of her face?

      A: They called back.

    2. Re:Get ready to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Q: Why does Helen Keller only masturbate with one hand?

      A: She needs the other one to moan with.

  2. Re:Gratuitous flame: not surprising by leviramsey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm the blind man... the above should be:

    After all, only a blind man could like GNOME's UI!
  3. Re:Gratuitous flame: not surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh yeah, fp from umass, baby!

    Go Minutemen!

    One university to rule the Atlantic 10!