RE: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

["Jason Grieves" <jasongrieves hotmail com>]

Point taken, 

My low vision friend who see's 20/1700 loves open source and the idea of
linux.  He's also a computer administrator.  He worked at the Dept. of
Homeland security where they house *nix and windows boxes.  The boxes they
had just didn't work very well with the gnome magnifier.  He came to me and
we worked with gnopernicus for a long time, trying to get it working better
and even full screen support.  Problem is its just not usable in a work
environment that he is used with ZoomText.  He's fast as anything with
ZoomText, and watching the system lag and get stuck behind the magnifier and
widgets getting stuck with magnifier and keyboard focus not sticking with
him was hard.  He just had to ask his admins to be put to work on the
Windows boxes. 

Accessibility is coming its just taking its time.  I appreciate all the
support and coders who are working hard to bring it around.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org
[mailto:gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Sébastien
Hinderer
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:35 PM
To: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

Hi Sun folks & other listers.

Bill Haneman :
> 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.

[snip]

Hey Bill. Just for an experience, please do the followingthings :

1. Switch off your computer.
2. Close your eyes and do something so that you can't see anything.
Are you really blind, now ? Ok, so:
3. Switch on your computer, choose any graphical mailer you like,
and try to reply to this mail _without_ opening your eyes.
Just use a speech system, or a braille one, if you have one you know
well enough.

Now... I'm waiting for your blindly sent reply.

Sébastien.
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