Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired
- From: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
- To: Samuel Thibault <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>
- Cc: Dave Lister <emacsuser linuxmail org>, gnome-accessibility-list gnome org, marc acbradio org
- Subject: Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:39:57 +0100
Samuel Thibault wrote:
...
They say "open source is not accessible", which is wrong, but what is
true is "open source is not yet really accessible".
I do not agree with this assessment.
The vast majority of problems which have been raised on this list has
undergone a shift in recent months; most problems are now configuration
related problems. This indicates a lack of testing by integrators and
distros. The Sun internal Linux builds are consistently passing a
battery of sanity tests now, so there is no fundamental reason why other
distros cannot have a reasonable level of base accessibility now.
However this requires committment to testing, education of testers and
integrators. It also may mean integrating a Sun-mozilla instead of, or
alongside, Firefox, etc. To say that this cannot be done today is wrong
in my view. It is true that the end user experience may not be as good
as JAWS+Windows for many users, but it is now possible to get useful
work done on the accessible free desktop, once the pieces are properly
strung together.
regards
Bill
What we can yet
point out is that "open source cannot but get more and more accessible,
even more than proprietary software".
But immediate switching every administrative employee to open source
is not possible right now. Is there a precise expected date for their
migration?
Regards,
Samuel
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