[Kde-accessibility] Re: [kde-promo] Fwd: Free Standards GroupAccessibility Workgroup

[Andreas Pour]

Andreas Pour wrote:

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> "Despite the many ongoing efforts to help persons who cannot see or who have
> trouble operating a standard keyboard or mouse use Linux systems, Linux GUIs are
> still generally inaccessible to these users."
> 
> Or something like that . . . .  The crux is to describe specifically what the
> problems are rather than to label people . . . .

PS - Note that this description is also generally much more descriptive of the
problems.  For instance, there are classes of people other than the blind or
"handicapped" who might not be able to see the display or operate a keyboard or
mouse.  For example, car drivers might be unable to see, or continually see, the
display (yet someone may want to use a Linux GUI for a car-based computer with
GPS navigation).  Drivers and cell-phone users may have a hard time using a
keyboard.  Etc.

When you focus on the particular impediments to using the system you might
inadvertently realize that the problem is much larger than you had imagined ;-).

Ciao,

Dre