Re: "Accessibility in Fedora Workstation" (fwd)

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No, it seems you are the person I have to thank. It was indeed the Linux version of the FreedomBox browser I used at that time, and it was a game changer. I started with Linux in early 2003, finding it to be overall far superior to anything I had used before it, mostly Microsoft's Dos, Windows 3.1, 98, ME and XP. But I had to keep my less than legal XP and my illegally authorized Jaws at that time because of issues I had working with banking and other online payment systems and other sites that had already lost, or possibly never had, the ability to work well in text-mode browsers. Yes, that self-voicing browser, I seem to recall it speaking using DECTalk speech, was indeed a game changer, and I see that my gratitude is not misplaced after all. Back at that time, I was doing everything in text mode and had to startx to get to a graphical session that could run the browser, but fortunately, by the time the Linux version of the FreedomBox browser stopped working, I was able to use Firefox with the screen reader called Gnopernicus, so I never again had to find an illegal copy of XP or Jaws so that I could pay my bills and shop and other things that required a fully graphical browser. So yes, thank you and Serotek for getting me over the last hurdle to using Linux full-time, and thanks also to Sun Microsystems, Igalia and many others for all the work that has gone into overall accessibility of graphical desktop environments and Linux applications since then.~Kyle


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