Matt: ubuntu-desktop metapackage request

[Jan Claeys]

Op ma, 22-05-2006 te 15:23 +0100, schreef Henrik Nilsen Omma:
> There are not many disabled users on Linux ATM, in part because the 
> accessibility has so far been poor.

The 2 blind linux users that I "know" (mainly from on-line, although I
met one of them briefly at an anti-swpat-meeting in Brussels too) both
say that linux is more accessible than Windows.  They both use a braille
device and console linux though...

> It is true that many visually impaired users use speech output (in part 
> because braille devices are very expensive -- a separate problem). 

Another reason is that a significant number of blind people weren't born
blind, and those people (especially the elderly?) don't always have the
courage to start learning to read & write again.


-- 
Jan Claeys