What an awesome list, talk of Microsoft holding back the blind community by shackling us with unusable garbage. They will get left behind, something has started, it has started very subtly, but it has started. If we can pave the way for the blind masses, we can ease their transition into a sane computing environment. People yack on and on about productivity, equating it with currency. Linux increases productivity by at least five-fold. So much wasted effort, time, and energy go into simply doing the most moronically basic thing in Windoze. Conversely, people yack on and on about cost, equating it with productivity, trying to cut corners to build the cheapiest crappiest usable machine to sell to the lowest bidder. A free screenreading package and operating system combined with a hardware synthesizer could rival or beat a subpar XP machine. So people have started discussion console or GUI, does that mean that some have considered undertaking writing speech for X/Windows or Gnome? personally, at least in the here and now, Windows has caused GUI-burnout, and the text shell seems like a refreshing glass of water on an abnormally hot day without air conditioning due to a power loss. -- Currently playing: Koxbox Good Vibes Radio: http://clearwhitelight.org/goodvibes Omeron - Effortless Union with the Divine
