Hi Imbar, Well, I guess that would all depend on what type of application or area of accessibility you are asking about. For instance, as far as games goes there aren't that many accessible games just because nobody has really developed that many accessible Linux games for us to play. Although, there are plenty of free text adventures that are accessible for Linux gamers which does help offset that issue slightly.
However, on the plus side Linux has some huge accessibility advantages over Windows when it comes to software installation. If you were to grab a distribution like Vinux you could completely install Linux from scratch using speech and braille. You can't exactly do that with Windows. As far as general accessibility apps like Firefox are more or less the same as Windows versions. There are a few things that could be improved such as Orca doesn't have the cool little command to put links in a list like Jaws and Window-Eyes does, but over all Firefox is pretty much accessible otherwise. Same goes for office. Open Office is fairly accessible with Orca for the most part. At least for what I do. There are things they are working on improving such as table support etc, but I don't really notice a huge difference between screen reader accessibility for MS Office 2007 on Windows and screen reader accessibility with Open Office 3.3 for Linux. Cheers! On 4/18/11, Imbar Golt <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks much. Would you say things are more accessible on Linux? > > Imbar > Ms Imbar Golt > [email protected] --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
