You are certainly correct. I completely missed that definition. That brings up a point--although it is not related to the question that started this thread: Availability of open source products to make computers accessible to the disabled. The products (whether for input, output or control) that I am aware of:
Its Never To Late Freedom Scientific (JAWS--a "screen reader"--and others) Nuance (Dragon Naturally Speaking) are all proprietary, Windows based and expensive. I need to add that I have either experimented with or use(d) the first two, and they are high quality reliable products. I realize that this List is for Scribus, and that this thread has wandered off topic. So my advance apologies, but I want to take advantage of this opportunity: Does anybody know of any open source products for the disabled? Thanks. On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Jeffrey Silverman < jeffrey.d.silverman at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Mike Morris <twriterext at gmail.com> wrote: > > I must admit I don't understand the comments on PDF accessibility. I > upload > > a newsletter in PDF to a web site. There is a link from the web site's > home > > page (in fact from any page on that web site that displays the > "navigation" > > panel) to the PDF. When I (or anyone) clicks on that link, the PDF opens > in > > my Firefox browser (or their browser). The same holds true, for me, for > any > > PDF from any other web site. > > > > It is true that I use Windows and I have Adobe Reader (and Acrobat) > > installed on my computer. However, several acquaintances have Linux and > > other PDF readers (and neither Adobe product) on their computers, and > have > > no trouble accessing or reading the newsletter PDF (or any PDF). > > > > Have I missed something here? > ><snip!> > > Yes. The definition of "accssibility". > > "Accessibility" as in, ability of disabled persons to access the content. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility > > NOT the availability of the document(s) via the web. > > seeya > > -- > Jeff Silverman > jeffrey.d.silverman at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080916/2af4a812/attachment.htm>
