[Kde-accessibility] claims of inaccesibility

[James Pilcher]

hi,

this article appeared on slashdot 
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/09/1727255

Quote:

ComputerWorld is reporting that John Winske, president of the Disability 
Policy Consortium, is raising some questions about the accessibility of 
the OpenDocument format 
<http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;451690859;fp;16;fpid;0>. 
 From the article: /"Winske, who has muscular dystrophy, said he 
instantly remembered how Microsoft had to be "prodded and dragged, 
kicking and screaming" to make its software accessible during the 
transition from DOS to Windows. None of the prominent desktop 
applications that can create and save documents in OpenDocument 
currently work well with screen readers, magnifiers and other assistive 
technologies -- at least at a level comparable to that of products from 
Microsoft, whose 40-person Accessibility Technology Group is now widely 
praised by disabilities advocates."/

thanks,
James Pilcher

		
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