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The State of Linux Accessibility
Dog's_Breakfast writes "This week's edition of DistroWatch Weekly News features a unique story entitled 'Linux Accessibility — What is it and Why Does It Matter?' The article was written by Robert Cole, a blind person with a computer science degree. Mr Cole points out that Linux offers an excellent set of free tools for seeing-impaired users. Putting together a similar set of tools on Windows would cost at least US$600, about double what a retail copy of Windows itself costs."
Close your eyes. Let your mind take control. And turn your brain into a dance floor.
Dance floor build initiated.
Start the drums. Building graph sequence. And the baseline created the melody. Melody programmed.
Now, add the people. Enter access code... Access granted.
Welcome to the dance floor. Here is your DJ, Armin van Buuren. This is... THE STATE OF LINUX ACCESSABILITY!
...Because when I saw "accessibility" I immediately thought "ease-of-use" and had a laugh.
Anybody who isn't on welfare switched to OS X years ago.
Yep, even my blind aunt agrees. She thinks it's sad Apple ran out of cat names, and that Swahili was an odd choice, but "Ubuntu" is her new favourite OS.
And with GIMP having a single window interface at last, there's no excuse left for a blind person to stick to Windows/Osx.
"I'm not much interested in interoperability. I want substitutability. I want to be able to throw your software out."