Thursday January 05, 2006 
The collected occasional commentary by Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Peter Korn's Weblog The collected occasional commentary by Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Thursday January 05, 2006 Visually Impaired User Weighs In on Assistive Technology DebateScott Seder has a very thoughtful and articulate article in LinuxPlanet today about the Microsoft accessibility monoculture, the issues he is fighting with using assistive technologies on Windows, and the struggle in Massachusetts. See: Visually Impaired User Weighs In on Assistive Technology Debate: Why a Windows-Only Argument Is A Bad Idea. My favorite quote is at the end:
If someone were to ask my opinion of what the best solution for this situation is, I would say that states should invest in open source AT, including technologies that use OpenDocument. If the states gave as much fiscal and developmental attention to production of AT applications as they had paid for JAWS and MAGIC, we would now have a viable and productive open source system affordable to all visually impaired and blind users.
(2006-01-05 10:30:07.0)
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