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Linux, a very powerful but still almost unknown environment for vision-impaired users
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| Back in 2006, I wrote that the Free Software
| community and disabled users must learn to
| communicate and invited Free Software
| developers to do their part. Last week I
| interviewed Tony Baechler, an active member of
| the Blinux mailing list, to check how things
| are going in 2010, and to know more about a
| very interesting project for Linux vision-
| impaired users he's trying to launch.
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http://stop.zona-m.net/node/143
Recent:
Independent Appeal: Bridging the digital divide for the blind of Kenya
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| Open-source software â free-to-use programs
| donated by developers which can then be
| customised to particular needs â has proved to
| be a boon. Computer Aid has employed its own
| research and development officer, Ugo Vallauri,
| to collect feedback from African users.
|
| Putting a Braille machine in front of a child
| costs an initial $600 (Â375). A digital book
| stored on a USB stick with open-source software
| to read aloud to the child costs about $3. "This
| has been a big step for us," says Martin Kieti,
| the head of KUB. "We're looking at a 95 per cent
| reduction in costs."
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/appeals/indy-appeal/independent--appeal-bridging-the-digital-divide-for-the-blind-of-kenya-1845110.html
Intellectual Monopolists Scorn the Blind
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| This, then, is the reality of "modern"
| copyright: it fails to serve huge numbers
| of people, many of whom are already
| suffering from discrimination in other
| ways.
|
| Given this situation, various
| organisations are not unreasonably trying
| to facilitate access to copyrighted works
| for those who are visually disabled with a
| new WIPO treaty that would define basic
| rights for this group. Who could object to
| such a humanitarian cause? Well, the
| publishers, of course.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/intellectual-monopolists-scorn-blind.html
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