free software & accessibility

[Ivan Shmakov]

[Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-***@.]

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GNU/Linux provides superior alternatives to JAWS - the only reason
more sight impaired people don't ditch MS is because they don't hear
about it - and because they get stupid advice (you need to learn
things - learning shouldn't be necessary).

I wonder, could the upcoming Software Freedom Day be a kind of
opportunity to spread the word of Free Software to them?

Our team would probably have joined the deal, but,
unfortunately, we don't apparently have anything to offer to the
sight impaired at our disposal (no embossers, no Braille
terminals, and I don't even know if the speech synthesizers
provided with Debian support Russian.)

[To the Russian teams: or do we have anything of this sort,
actually?]

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