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The State of Linux Accessibility

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-inclusive dept.

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."

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  1. Re:It's super accessible by arth1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cobol is one of the most audibly readable languages there is.
    "multiply a by b giving c" sounds a lot better than "c equalsign a asterisk b semicolon".

    If I were to vote for the language that is the hardest to understand when read out loud (whether by machine or human), my vote would not go to perl, but lisp. With perl, at least you have the option to make it somewhat readable. Good luck balancing lisp parentheses correctly.

    Not to mention typical block comments (in most any language), where you risk hearing five minutes of "asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk..."