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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. Buy A Mac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Most of the visually impaired users I talk with at my university prefer to buy Apple products. For whatever else it does, Apple has baked accessibility into its products in a way that no other OS comes close to.

  2. Re:From the article... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's great and all, but I've never gotten sound to work on any Linux installations. I'll never hear a drum sound, or any other sound!