Thanks Luke.<br><br>The thing that has really hit home for me is the level of re-learning required to move from one to another.<br>Bearing in mind that the users I speak of are not techs. The PC is their enabler for their job as Sales Managers.
<br><br>Any change, even if GNOME was "there" strikes me as being the equivalent of learning a different language, not something that is easy <br>and it would have a major affect on performance , which directly relates to their income, which I would not want to see happen.
<br><br>Think I need to educate myself....some Googling is in order.<br><br>Rgds<br>BW<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Luke Yelavich</b> <<a href="mailto:themuso@themuso.com">
themuso@themuso.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:51:32AM EST, Brent Wallis wrote:
<br>> Blah...well it's out now!<br>><br>> But from mistakes come opportunity... :)<br>><br>> The points here on Visually impared users may be of interest to some and are<br>> a sticking point from me.....
<br><br>As they are for me, as a vision impaired Linux user.<br><br>> Does anyone have some comments to make on Linux Desktops functionality for<br>> the disabled?<br><br>In short, there is still a long way to go. GNOME itself with the various
<br>packages available for vision impaired users is usable, but such common<br>tasks as web browsing need a lot of work before they are usable by the<br>disabled masses. Things are constantly being worked on however, and<br>
there is sometimes a way round things if a user's need is well<br>understood and requirements are clearly stated.<br>--<br>Luke Yelavich<br>GPG key: 0xD06320CE<br> (<a href="http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt">
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