Re: User interfaces (was Re: Help me push Linux)

[Niall Kavanagh]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Another good reason for plain command line interfaces is for the visually 
> impaired. They can't use the graphical interfaces.

How do you figure? A properly designed GUI should be accessible to the
visually impaired. Why do you think IBM got slammed for not keeping them
in mind when they designed the Olympics' web site (and forgot the ALT
tags)? ;)

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