Re: Google+ readability

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:23:34 -0700

It may be a long battle to keep Google thinking of improving accessibility to its products, but it is indeed worth the fight. The battle for accessibility to any company's product is worth it, even though it may be long, hard and even frustrating at times. Although many Linux distributions have had some form of screen reading technology for more than 10 years, it has been only about 5 years since we have had a usable screen reader in GNOMW, and even less since we've had magnification. But look how far we've come; it's been well worth the time, energy and effort it has taken to make it all work as well as it does today, and it's still improving every day. Heck, even Windows has taken a giant leap forward in accessibility, with the availability of NVDA, and that has only happened within the past 4 years, and Windows accessibility is even now improving. I have had the pleasure of owning my first Android phone for about a month now, and it already is a giant leap ahead of any other phone I used in the past, and that is even taking into account the fact that I went with the lowest price I could find because of my extremely tight budget. All these OS's and platforms have a great need for more improvement, but it is very easy to see what can happen when we fight the long hard battle to gain equal access to as many products as possible at equal prices to what someone with fully functional eyes, ears, etc. would pay. Keep up the fight for accessibility everywhere, and keep up the great work toward making it work on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. 
~Kyle

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