Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps

Posted by samzenpus on from the we're-not-going-to-take-it dept.

angry tapir writes "The National Federation of the Blind claims that Google Apps lacks required features for blind people and wants the US government to investigate whether schools that adopt the e-mail and collaboration suite run afoul of civil rights laws. The NFB is asking the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to probe whether New York University and Northwestern University are discriminating against blind employees and students through their use of Google Apps' Education edition."

2 of 287 comments (clear)

  1. Disabled people by viablos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is also problem with so many open source projects. They all forget about disabilities and blind people. I've tried to get them to support them, but no one is interested adding such features. That's what proprietary software has done a lot better - they actually do account for disabled and blind people too. It's a major obstacle with open source software, but for example Microsoft and other big companies have generally supported such features.

    1. Re:Disabled people by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Or maybe your an astroturfer, since these are you only two comments.

      Gmail supports imap, and their other products support many other standards. All of these standards are inter-operable with normal software the disabled use.