[ale] OT: The blind and OSes

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat Aug 10 22:40:15 EDT 2013


We have an Alter with vision issues who pops up with much good stuff. John
Rheims is the name I recall. Search ale archives with Google.
On Aug 10, 2013 6:02 PM, "Jay Lozier" <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was talking to a lady who is totally blind today and we talked about
> OSes. She said Apple was very good about supporting the blind and Windows
> was trash. She despises Windows. She said that the favorite "OS" for many
> blind is Ubuntu and commented about how good Ubuntu was for the blind.
>
> I suspect there are other Linux distros that are quite suitable for the
> blind out of the box. Obvioulsy, the FOSS tools are available to make a
> distro accessible to the blind. But I was intrigued by was that FOSS was
> ahead of proprietary in supporting the visually impaired and blind.
>
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> Jay Lozier
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