Re: Adgangforalle.dk - public money, proprietary license

2019-12-13 Thread Carsten Agger
On 12/12/19 7:16 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Wednesday 11. December 2019 12.57.10 Carsten Agger wrote: > Certain kinds of politicians don't want the state to be doing anything that > might interfere with the supposed "right" of people to make good money, > especially when it is good money off t

Re: Adgangforalle.dk - public money, proprietary license

2019-12-13 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 11. December 2019 12.57.10 Carsten Agger wrote: > > There's one very curious thing about this product: Often, organizations > have software made by private vendors, and the private vendors will > retain their copyright and their right to keep it proprietary. In this > case, it's the A

Re: Adgangforalle.dk - public money, proprietary license

2019-12-13 Thread L.Cecilie Wian
Thank you for this interesting case. In Norway it is an issue that people with impairments of different types struggle to get a job. I would think it is an issue in Denmark as well. It is a lot of effort to become fluent in tools, and having to learn two with identical purpose makes no sense. I wo

Adgangforalle.dk - public money, proprietary license

2019-12-12 Thread Carsten Agger
Digitaliseringsstyrelsen (Agency for Digitisation) in Denmark have created an accessibility product called "acces for all" og "adgang for alle", which is basically a screen reader. It's available for Windows and MacOS, and for GNU/Linux-based operating systems it will work with an extension for Chr