linux and accessibility applications

[Sina Bahram]

While this might sometimes be the case. What if we can make the circle
bigger or turn the square sideways?

You see, if we keep saying things can't happen, then guess what: they won't.
But accessibility is a constantly growing and shifting field, and I believe
that absolutely anything is possible with some effort. I recently saw some
flash animations that were fully accessible, or getting there. I would have
never dreamed of this a year or two ago.

Take care,
Sina

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-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Doug Sutherland
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 6:43 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: linux and accessibility applications


Just my $.02 ... trying to add accessibility to a GUI model is like trying
to stuff a square peg into a round hole. I personally think it just does not
make sense to do this. It would be better to make an accessible version of
the same software, one being completely text based. The problem is in the
modality of how things are presented, invoked, prompted, etc. The two
modalities (text and graphical) are just to different.

   -- Doug


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