user 'freedom' (was RE: [thelist] Site check: Staples.com)

Anthony Ettinger apwebdesign at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 20 19:09:18 CDT 2005



--- Jeff Howden <jeff at jeffhowden.com> wrote:

> Anthony,
> 
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> > From: Anthony Ettinger
> [mailto:apwebdesign at yahoo.com] 
> > 
> > > The irony in your statement is that the windows
> > > platform is the platform of choice for those
> with
> > > accessibility issues.  None of the other
> platforms
> > > can even come close to the depth and breadth of
> > > accessibility hooks available to users and
> software
> > > developers in windows.  So, for accessibility,
> > > windows *is* the answer.
> > 
> > Care to cite your source?
>
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> Nine years of experience in the industry.
> 
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> > Either way, I'm sure both OS's offer great
> accessible
> > applications if you know where and how to find it.
>
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> 
> Unfortunately, that's not even close to true.  When
> it comes to things like
> keyboard navigation, accelerator+key combos,
> tabbing, etc., no other OS can
> touch windows.  More over, I'm not even talking
> about applications
> specifically, but the underlying hooks available to
> application developers
> by the OS.  Non-Windows OSes are getting better, but
> still can't compete
> when you combine the underlying assistive hooks
> provided by the OS as well
> as the assistive applications available.
> 
> http://www.washington.edu/accessit/articles?15

>From your source above:

Linux differs from both Windows and Mac OS in that it
is an open source operating system and is supported
and advanced by a dedicated community of developers.
To date, the Linux developer community has produced a
basic core set of accessibility features (as described
above), as well as a combined screen reader/screen
magnification application, Braille output software,
and an on-screen keyboard. Each of these products was
developed for the popular GNOME desktop, a graphic
interface environment that runs on both Linux and
Unix. Additional information about GNOME accessibility
is available in the AccessIT Knowledge Base article Is
Linux Accessible?


http://www.washington.edu/accessit/articles?13


Anthony Ettinger
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