The real question is access. Neither JAWS nor WINDOW EYES can give full access to the Windows operating system. If you get away from the small number of familiar Microsoft applications, you find that you have to limp along. This will be so until speech and Braille and large print access are built right into the operating system. Linux is the only operating system that has a prayer of getting such access built in. However, until X-windows is made accessible, Linux will remain a solution for only a few. If it is not done soon, though, and X-windows gets to challenge Microsoft for its dominance, blind people will again be left out in the cold. The fact is tat, unless some of us get behind it and push and make our own way to get X-windows accessible, it is not going to get done. If any of you are interested in working aggressively toward that end, let me hear from you privately. Lists are great for getting people in touch, but they all tend to go in the direction of griping sessions a la talk radio. Let's start doing, as talk is very cheap and time is not on our side. David Arocho -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Richard Villa" <rvilla1@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Needs educateingRE: Message from Linux (fwd) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 03:10:42 -0800 Size: 4752 URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20020121/37d95f0d/attachment.mht>
