[ale] OT: The blind and OSes

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

On one of the Linux podcasts, maybe Going Linux, they have a sometimes sponsor sometimes guest that is blind and who configures systems for handicapped people.  I cannot remember his name, at the moment, unfortunately.  Apparently, you can do a lot with foss that would cost lots of $$$ on Windows.

Ron



Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was talking to a lady who is totally blind today and we talked about 
>
>OSes. She said Apple was very good about supporting the blind and
>Windows  
>was trash. She despises Windows. She said that the favorite "OS" for
>many  
>blind is Ubuntu and commented about how good Ubuntu was for the blind.
>
>I suspect there are other Linux distros that are quite suitable for the
> 
>blind out of the box. Obvioulsy, the FOSS tools are available to make a
> 
>distro accessible to the blind. But I was intrigued by was that FOSS
>was  
>ahead of proprietary in supporting the visually impaired and blind.
>
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