Opinion: Visually Impaired User Weighs In on Assistive Technology Debate

Posted by dcparris on Jan 5, 2006 6:18 PM EDT
LinuxPlanet; By Scott Seder
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One of the arguments in Massachusetts against OpenDocument centered on the needs of the visually impaired. In this guest column, a visually impaired PC user explains that not only is using an exclusively Windows solution a crash-prone option, it is also far more expensive than equivalent technologies in OS X and, eventually, Linux. Scott Seder makes the case for more open source development in the Assistive Technology arena.

[Ed: I wish this argument had appeared during the original debate! Still, it is an excellent argument for Massachusetts - and other states - to consider. - dcparris]

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