Comments on: More Cool News on the Open Source Front http://blog.carrolltech.org/archives/65 A Carroll Tech blog about Accessibility Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:44:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: linda86 http://blog.carrolltech.org/archives/65#comment-123 linda86 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:16:38 +0000 http://blog.carrolltech.org/archives/65#comment-123 It annoys me that screen reading software costs an arm and a leg. The market is small, but not that small. Seems to me that the vendors think we all have someone else (read a gov't agency or an employer with deep pockets) to foot the bill. i should be so lucky. So any interest in accessibility software shown by the Open Source community is a welcome one as far as I am concerned. And with Open Source, anyone can build on the foundations that already exist which fuels further development down the road. This is a very cool thing and hopefully will result in some innovative, useful, and AFFORDABLE software. Yeah, it matters how well the software works. If the software isn't "accessible" due to it's high price tag however, then it's functionality is pretty irrelevant. It annoys me that screen reading software costs an arm and a leg. The market is small, but not that small. Seems to me that the vendors think we all have someone else (read a gov’t agency or an employer with deep pockets) to foot the bill. i should be so lucky.

So any interest in accessibility software shown by the Open Source community is a welcome one as far as I am concerned. And with Open Source, anyone can build on the foundations that already exist which fuels further development down the road. This is a very cool thing and hopefully will result in some innovative, useful, and AFFORDABLE software.

Yeah, it matters how well the software works. If the software isn’t “accessible” due to it’s high price tag however, then it’s functionality is pretty irrelevant.

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