call to arms

[Jerry Feldman]

On Monday 05 December 2005 3:18 pm, Ed Lawson wrote:

> > This makes FOSS accessibility a major strategic advantage for
>
> FOSS and
>
>
> Seems to me the issue now is for FOSS to somehow develop
> accessibility features that currently exist in proprietary
> software.  While Gnome has done some good work in this area, the
> reality is FOSS simply is not anywhere near where it needs to be
> just to be roughly equal to proprietary software.
>
> For now, most FOSS is at a great disadvantage in this area and is
> not a viable option. Long way to go before it can be seen as
> competitive let alone having an advantage.
Have you looked at the KDE accessability options. 
Additionally, have you looked at the BLINUX project.
Linux has been a choice for visually impaired because you can do a lot more 
with the command line. I have not kept up on this in recent years, though
http://leb.net/blinux/

Also, I notice that when booting SuSE it looks for a braille keyboard. 

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