[Leaplist] Something new ??

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 08:34 -0700, Kevin Anderson wrote:
> I suspect _literally_ might give the reader utility some grief
> though...  :) As might the smiley.  I've never used any of the
> software though, so perhaps not. 

Any image of the braille code would require it to still have the
taggings or meta, so it's really of no use.

> I am told that with KDE, the visual assistance stuff was largely
> written by two brothers for their mother as she literally went blind
> over the course of several months.  So it was done out of love, and
> with a very real sense of urgency, and also with realtime feedback
> directly to the developers.  I would expect that it's better done than
> most, but as I said, I have no personal experience with it myself. 

A great majority of the GNOME 2.0+ presentation for braille and other
accessibility was done by Sun.**

**CONSIDERATION:  My attitude and my well-known "apologist status" with
regards to Red Hat and Sun in my postings, especially when they are
chastised versus "more popular" Linux organizations, isn't without
merit, just not very "popularly known" merit.  ;)  


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