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Re: Microsoft: National Consumer Organization SHHH Awards M



> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Omer Zak wrote:
> 
> > Another big challenge to Linux from Micro$oft.  (Besides the Office 
> > applications, that is.)
> [rest deleted to save this space].
> 
> yet they've not prepared software for blind people.
> i've met (virtualy) a few blind people who use computers (And the
> internet) through some program that (as far as i understood) tracks the
> cursor's position and lets them here the text (or perhaps it uses
> brail-style output on some device?). they can only use textual programs
> this way (not graphical programs), as far as i understood, due to lack of
> proper technology in that area...
> 
> guy
> 
> 
That is not true. Blind people are working in a graphical enviroments.
They use a brail output device, which scans your desktop and switches between
the active open windows. What they can "see" is all the text-fields apear in a window.
One can see it as an enhanced use of the TAB key.

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