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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:It's super accessible by partofme · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would just suggest getting Mac OS X. Apple has really done well with accessibility. You also still get the underlying unix system if you want to, but the UI is great too. You may think it's not a huge thing, but you'll see once you try. And people do say how crappy the Linux desktop UI's are now, like Unity and the new Gnome.

  3. 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!