Google+ readability

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:59:51 -0500
bando?ers <burt1iband at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not to make light of your problem, but those of us who need a screenreader can't do much of anything with Google+. I can read the site at least, but find that the buttons don't work for me, not even in windows using NVDA with firefox, which for me is the current gold standard for accessible web-browsing. I of course tried with Orca using Ubuntu/Vinux first. 
> You can at least use chromium, and remain open-source if you don't want to use chrome itself. Last I heard even using the chromevox extension accessiblity is at best complicated and incomplete for the blind Linux user, and I didn't even get it working under windows a few months back, but this is because I seldom use the barely accessible Chrome/chromium and didn't know how to manage the different chrome extension types. I think this should actually not be hard to do, so will try again, but unless it becomes feasible under Linux there's little point as I maybe use windows %5-10 of the time at the most, and I'll be damned if I'll change my computing habbits drastically because of a soc-net. 
> Too bad however. I'm a Google fan for the most part, but they just have not payed enough attention to accessibility, and they've made it hard to patch by not adopting a consistent platform from what I hear. 
> You may wish to post this to the Vinux-support list as  for end-user issues it is generally a much more responsive list, mostly speech using, but folks do get help with magnification problems and other display issues that relate to accessibility.
> Regards, and sorry for the rant; to a point...lol..
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> Burt Henry
> 

As much as this list might be discussing the screen-reader at the
present time, I would like to inform you and all other users that
Accessibility in Ubuntu has never been limited to Orca screen-reader.
Gnome Orca has a separate mailing list, if you are really only
concerned with that subject. 

Ubuntu Accessibility includes all needs for users. It does include
deafness, blindness, partially visually impaired, physically impaired,
and any other user with special needs. 

I think I can say this with some authority, since I have worked with
the Accessibility Team for a couple of years now, and have written
quite a bit of the information available on the Ubuntu Wiki concerning
accessibility. I have also give Ubuntu Open Week, Ubuntu Developer
Week, and Ubuntu User Day sessions on Accessibility.

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Charlie Kravetz 
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