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User nuncus changed the following:
What |Old value |New value
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Status|CLOSED |UNCONFIRMED
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Resolution|WONTFIX |
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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 10 05:54:58 -0800
2006 -------
Dear es:
"Myopia" is not the problem. "Visually Handicapped" and "Legally Blind" is the
issue.
You may be myopic; but there is not one "visually handicapped" or "legally
blind" person on the planet who would not gladly change places with you.
Either the word processor will be made "accessability standards" compliant -- in
which case, the visually handicapped will be able to use it -- or it will not be
made an "accessible" app -- in which the visually handicapped will not be able
to use it. Certainly, if it is NOT an "accessible" app, then, at least in the
States, where we have an "Americans with Disabilities Act" (federal law)
("ADA"), the fact that the app is NOT ADA compliant will raise legal issues;
hence, why would an employer switch his place of work over to OOo if he is going
to potentially be sued?
If you go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/research/default.aspx
you will learn about "accessibility." "Approximately one in four (25%) computer
users have a visual difficulty or impairment."
See:
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/research/computerusers.aspx
See also:
"Approximately one in four (27%) have a visual difficulty or impairment." -- of
all working aged adults.
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/research/workingage.aspx
(The ... reports are the result of research commissioned by Microsoft
Corporation, and conducted by Forrester Research, Inc., between 2003 and 2004.)
This is an item that would most likely not take too much trouble to fix.
25% of your "potential" users cannot see very well. The "magnifiers" that you
reference do NOT correct the "accessibility" problem for most visually
handicapped users.
You obviously need to read up on "accessibility." You are a computer
programmer; you are not a low vision specialist; and, the last time I checked,
you are not God!
Open Source needs to "wake up" on the "accessibility" issue.
Now, on behalf of all the people on this planet who do not have eyes as good as
yours, PLEASE reconsider this issue.
This issue is NOT "going away."
Thank you,
Nuncus
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