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Re: Microsoft: National Consumer Organization SHHH Awards Microsoft Top Honor (fwd)
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, guy keren wrote:
> 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.
So this is a door into which Linuxphiles can break. Start working! (And
please don't forget also us deafies, even though our needs are in several
cases opposite those of the blind.)
> 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...
Yes, blind people indeed got screwed by Windows-based applications. I
should remember this when I feel getting screwed by voicemail, automatic
phone response systems, computer games in which sound effects are
indispensable for playing, etc.
--- Omer
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