linux and accessibility applications

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Tue Mar 16 17:30:31 EST 2004


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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:52:35PM +1100, Sean Murphy wrote:
> At this point of time, all adaptive technology products have different
> methods of accessing the hardware that is used by the vision impaired.  It
> would be nice if all programs had a common method of accessing the hardware,
> like screen readers and braille displays.  Then the developers of these
> products would only need to know one way of accessing these hardware
> devices. 

Yes, and it would also be nice if all manufacturers shared the specs
for their hardware without requiring non-disclosure agreements. Then
what you suggest above would become more practical, if not necessarily
desirable to all.

Greg



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