Steve Lee wrote:
This is one of the notions that gets me to work in the morning :) My director here at the ATRC is a better word smith than I am so I ask anyone who is interested in a newspaper article titled "Inclusion promotes innovation" to follow this link: http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/2555213) Brainstorming / developing improvements that push the envelope in the user experience. It's great to have a set of familiar assistive technologies for people to use today when migrating to GNOME from other platforms. But a benefit of developing on an open stack with an excellent (the best?) accessibility infrastructure is that it affords us the opportunity to create alternative, better, more usable, (pick an adjective) software to help users. Dasher is a perfect example: born out of research and later packaged with GNOME releases as a new "flavor" of on-screen keyboard.Absolutely! FOSS offers the possibility of innovation
Choice quote: "we have succumbed to the tyranny of the popular, the typical, the average, or the norm"... but let's not! We should be able to go so much farther and faster in FOSS land...
OK having some big sponsors would help. Any board members listening... can we maybe create a directed giving program for accessibility (like MoFo recently did)?
cheers, David