Accessibility building momentum
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| Recently, I've seen encouraging signs that the ICDL will be fully
| supportive of people who want to be "computer literate" with free
| software. Wouldn't it be something if that privilege were extended
| to EVERY user, regardless of financial circumstance, language, or
| disability?
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http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/93
Related:
The Free Standards Group to Standardize New Accessibility Software Interfaces
Donated by IBM
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| The Free Standards Group has said that it will be developing and
| maintaining software interfaces donated by IBM as an open standard,
| available for all to use. The standardized interfaces, IAccessible2,
| make it far easier for application developers to provide accessible
| applications to computer users with disabilities, regardless of their
| OS platform. IAccessible2 will become a crucial part of the FSG
| Accessibility Workgroup and is available immediately.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/Application/The_Free_Standards_Group_to_Standardize_New_Accessibility_Software_Interfaces_Donated_by_IBM
Free Operating System For Blind: Adriane Knoppix
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| Klaus and Adriane Knopper are working on an operating system for the
| blind, and as compared to other solutions available, this one is
| absolutely free!
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=17094
Happy (belated) birthday: GNOME accessibility turns 6 years old
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| Ubuntu version 6.10 is shipping, with Orca available and optionally
| talking at boot up from the LiveCD, and talking and Brailling through
| the install (making this the first evern graphical desktop that you
| can install using Braille, and the second one that you can install
| using speech)
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http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/happy_%28belated%29_birthday%3A_gnome_accessibility
http://tinyurl.com/yammg9
Firefox: An open source accessibility success story
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| Mozilla and Firefox are gradually becoming a core part of the future
| of web accessibility, where the open source license is a huge
| advantage. The Firefox accessibility effort has now truly achieved
| ignition, not only with base accessibility support in Firefox, but
| also by leading the future of accessibility for dynamic web applications.
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http://www-306.ibm.com/able/resources/firefox.html
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